Hybrid SecOps Engineer: Detection & Response

Akkodis; Leadgate; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Permanent

Job summary

Modis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our cybersecurity team in a hybrid UK-based role. You will monitor security operations, respond to incidents, and help improve detection capabilities across the technology estate.

The role collaborates with infrastructure, cloud and application teams, uses tools like Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, CrowdStrike and Splunk, and offers the chance to influence security strategy while staying hands-on.

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations and incident management.
• Familiarity with security monitoring and detection technologies.
• Understanding of endpoint, identity and cloud security.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 environments.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, triage and respond to security alerts and incidents.
• Coordinate incident response activities to minimise business impact.
• Perform root-cause analysis and recommend preventative measures.
• Lead or support security investigations and post-incident reviews.
• Enhance monitoring and detection capabilities across the organisation.
• Tune and optimise security tooling to reduce false positives.
• Identify emerging threats and attack vectors.
• Support threat hunting and proactive security initiatives.
• Configure and maintain SIEM, EDR/XDR and monitoring solutions.
• Drive security automation and orchestration initiatives.
• Deliver security improvement projects and technical enhancements.
• Support implementation of security controls, policies and standards.
• Act as a liaison for managed SOC and security partners.
• Work with infrastructure, cloud and application teams.

Skills

Security operations

Incident management

Threat detection

Security tooling

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Splunk

IBM QRadar

Azure Security Services

SOAR platforms

EDR

Job description

Modis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our cybersecurity team in a hybrid UK-based role. You will monitor security operations, respond to incidents, and help improve detection capabilities across the technology estate.

The role collaborates with infrastructure, cloud and application teams, uses tools like Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, CrowdStrike and Splunk, and offers the chance to influence security strategy while staying hands-on.