Elastic SIEM & Cloud Security Engineer

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

SIEM engineering exposure

Cloud security focus

Risk and governance

Career development

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Manchester is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to design, operate and improve capabilities used to detect, investigate and contain cyber threats across a complex infrastructure.

You will develop SIEM content, dashboards and alert workflows, support SOC/NOC, and collaborate with security architecture, cloud, governance and infrastructure teams to deliver proportionate improvements while maintaining governance and evidence-based assurance.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in cyber security engineering or related discipline.
• Experience administering or developing SIEM capabilities, with Elastic knowledge advantageous.
• Ability to design and tune detection rules, correlation logic, dashboards, alerts or investigative workflows.
• Eligibility to work in the United Kingdom and willingness to meet role-specific screening requirements.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer and continuously improve the Elastic SIEM platform and related security tooling.
• Develop detection logic, dashboards, alert workflows and monitoring use cases that support effective threat identification.
• Design reliable pipelines for log collection, parsing, transformation, normalisation and integration.
• Assess security telemetry for completeness, accuracy and operational value, then address gaps with technical solutions.
• Strengthen preventative and detective controls across AWS, Azure and OT environments.
• Support SOC and NOC teams with investigation, triage and technical escalation.
• Contribute to Data Loss Prevention initiatives and testing.
• Investigate suspicious activity and document findings for improved detection and response.

Skills

Elastic SIEM

Threat detection

Incident response

Cloud security (AWS/Azure)

Security monitoring

Log analytics

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a cybersecurity-related field

Tools

Elastic Stack

AWS

Azure

Job description

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy in Manchester is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to design, operate and improve capabilities used to detect, investigate and contain cyber threats across a complex infrastructure.

You will develop SIEM content, dashboards and alert workflows, support SOC/NOC, and collaborate with security architecture, cloud, governance and infrastructure teams to deliver proportionate improvements while maintaining governance and evidence-based assurance.