Senior security operational centre engineer Work, Jobs in Reading, Eng (with Salaries)

Senior Security Operational Centre Engineer
Sopra Steria —Farnborough
- Up to £80,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Scripting
- IT
- Python
- Annual leave
- Life insurance
10d
Security Operational Centre Engineer
Sopra Steria —Farnborough
- Up to £63,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- AWS
- Organisational skills
- Annual leave
Senior Satellite Terminal Support Engineer
ALL.SPACE —Reading
- Overtime
- Military
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Quick apply
Regional Safety and Security Officer - Southeast
HM Courts & Tribunal Service —Amersham
- £30,001 - £50,000 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Analysis skills
- Presentation skills
- Travel
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
10d
Senior Software Engineer
NPL —Middlesex
- Software development
- Linux
Senior Data Engineer
Gigaclear —Abingdon
- Full-time
- SQL
- AWS
- Python
Quick apply
Reliability Maintenance Engineering Technician
Amazon UK Services Ltd. —Reading
- Full-time
- Maintenance
- Mechanical knowledge
13d
Senior Reliability Maintenance Engineering Technician, RME
Amazon UK Services Ltd. —Bracknell
- Weekend availability
- Maintenance
- English
- Programmable logic controllers
13d
Manager Engineering Operations
Digital Realty —Woking
- Full-time
- IT
- Communication skills
- Mechanical knowledge
5d
Regional Manager - Planned Maintenance
Lanes Group —Slough
- £50,000 - £60,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Office
- Bachelor's degree
- Travel
- Free parking
Quick apply
Health, Safety and Fire Practitioner - HMP/YOI Feltham
Ministry of Justice —Feltham
- £40,001 - £50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
Health, Safety and Fire Practitioner - HMP Send
Ministry of Justice —Woking
- £30,001 - £40,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Presentation skills
- Annual leave
Reliability Maintenance Engineering Technician / Engineering Technician / Electrical Engineer / Maintenance engineer / Service and Maintenance Engineer, AMZL DXW3-RME
Amazon UK Services Ltd. - A10 —Weybridge
- Full-time

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Senior Security Operational Centre Engineer

Sopra Steria -
Farnborough

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Job details

Permanent
Up to £80,000 a year
10 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Life insurance

Qualifications

Cloud infrastructure
Git
SoC
Splunk
Scripting
IT
SIEM
Python
PowerShell

Full job description

Build the detections that stop threats in their tracks.

We’re looking for a Senior SOC Engineer (Detection) to join our growing Cyber Security team. This is a hands-on engineering role where you’ll design and deliver high-quality detections across Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk, helping protect critical systems and clients in real time.

If you thrive on turning threat intelligence into actionable detection logic—and enjoy working at the heart of a live SOC—this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

This role is Hybrid: " days in the Farnborough office, 3 days from home.

You do need to be eligible for SC Clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

Develop, test and deploy detection content across Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk SIEM.
Write and optimise detection logic using KQL and SPL.
Turn monitoring requirements and use cases into effective, actionable detections.
Tune alerts to reduce false positives and improve SOC efficiency.
Validate detections against telemetry and ensure accuracy.
Support onboarding of log sources across cloud, infrastructure, identity and network.
Collaborate with SOC, Threat Intelligence and Security Architecture teams.
Investigate detection issues and improve performance and reliability.
Drive continuous improvement using automation, scripting and best practice.
Ensure detections are clearly documented and operationally usable.

What you’ll bring:

Experience in SOC engineering, detection engineering or SIEM engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk.
Solid knowledge of KQL and SPL.
Experience building, testing and maintaining detection rules.
Good understanding of SIEM lifecycle management and security telemetry.
Knowledge of cloud environments and IT infrastructure.
Familiarity with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Ability to analyse threats and translate them into detection capability.

Nice to have:

Experience with SOAR (Logic Apps / Splunk SOAR).
Detection-as-code or CI/CD pipeline experience.
Scripting in PowerShell, Python or similar.
Experience with Git-based workflows.
Relevant certifications (Microsoft, Splunk, Cyber Security).

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid: 2 days Farnborough Office. 3 days home.
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: To £80K
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days,4 x life Insurance, matched contributory pension to 6%, 3% flex benefit, single private medical cover, £5400.00 ca allowance.

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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment.
We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

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