AD - Global Detection Engineering

NCC Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension & Life Assurance

Share Save Scheme

Volunteer programs

Job summary

NCC Group in London is seeking a Head of Global Detection Engineering to lead a global team that builds, maintains and improves MXDR detection logic across multiple technologies, guided by a strategy aligned to market and client needs.

The role focuses on market-leading detection coverage, high fidelity detections for advanced cyber attacks, and low false positives, with collaboration across NCC and GMS leadership to drive continual improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in detection engineering across SIEM/EDR (NDR desirable).
• Experience in a global firm and multicultural context.
• Ability to navigate a complex international environment undergoing change.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Collaborate with clients and NCC teams to improve services.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global implementation team for MXDR detection logic.
• Part of GMS DevSecOps leadership, shaping platform vision and features.
• Ensure wide market coverage with high-fidelity detections and low false positives.
• Manage senior detection engineers and their teams by technology set.
• Coordinate with TI, CERT, Red Team findings to drive improvements.
• Provide transparency on detection coverage to clients.
• Apply data science to large datasets to improve attack detection and alert correlation.

Skills

Detection engineering

Global leadership

SIEM

EDR

NDR

Communication skills

Data science

Tools

Splunk

Sentinel

Defender for Endpoint

Carbon Black

Job description

Department: Cyber Services and Capabilities

Location: GBR London

The purpose of this role is to lead a global team that builds, maintains and continuously improves detection logic across a variety of MXDR technologies, according to a clear strategy that is regularly updated to meet market and client demands. The global team will be made up of regionally located colleagues (UK, NL, AU & PH), that all contribute to a global set of detection logic, custom detections for clients and structural improvement projects around these themes.

The head of global detection engineering will be responsible for ensuring a market leading detection coverage on the technologies we deploy as part of our MXDR services. They ensure that we detect high risk cyber attack techniques, that result in high fidelity detections at our clients, with low false positive ratios.

A key part of the role is engaging and collaborating with other leaders in the GMS and NCC business, to ensure that we achieve the following key ambitions:

• Develop new detection logic to contribute to Detection Engineering content repository.
• Continuously improve existing detection logic.
• Write and maintain detection tests cases.
• Review findings of TI, CERT, and Red Team activities and evaluate from a detection engineering improvement perspective.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a global implementation team that builds, maintains and continuously improves detection logic across a variety of MXDR technologies
• Be part of the GMS DevSecOps leadership team and actively contribute to setting vision, direction and feature set of our technology platforms
• Ensure that our detection logic is a differentiator in the market, providing extensive and high quality coverage for advanced cyber attacks
• Manage senior detection engineers who each manage a number of detection engineers on a specific technology set (EDR, NDR, SIEM)
• Work pro-actively with wider NCC teams to ensure all relevant inputs are available (TI, DFIR, RTO etc) to build top-notch detection logic and to ensure other teams (like solution architecture and implementations) have the required information to deploy high quality MXDR systems with the best possible coverage
• Ensure that we can always provide transparency to clients about the detection coverage they receive
• Ensure that we develop new ways of applying data science to our vast data sets in order to further improve detection of cyber attacks, correlation of alerts and other efficiencies and improvements that provide improved coverage to clients and improved efficiency to our SOC.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience in detection engineering on a range of technologies (SIEM and EDR, ideally NDR as well)
• Experience in working in a global firm in a multi-cultural context
• Experience in working in a complex international environment, that’s subjected to a significant amount of change
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with clients and NCC colleagues to continuously improve the service we deliver
• Experience with and knowledge of application of data science within a cyber security context
• Inspiring leader, with ability to communicate effectively at all levels, creating an approachable and supportive environment for colleagues

Desirable skills

• Have hands‑on experience with a variety of technologies we use: Sentinel, Defender for End‑point, Carbon Black, Splunk, etc
• Experience with purple teaming and other adjacent cyber security practices/topics that strengthen detection engineering
• Forensics and/or incident response experience

Job Benefits

• Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
• Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
• Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
• Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
• Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
• Cycle Scheme: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
• Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
• Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

Please note that this role involves mandatory pre-employment background checks due to the nature of the work NCC Group does. To apply, you must be willing and able to undergo the vetting process.

We are committed to diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please tell us at any stage.