Hybrid SecOps Engineer: Protect, Detect & Respond

Akkodis; Prudhoe; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our cyber security team, blending hands-on security engineering with incident response. You'll monitor threats, triage alerts, respond to incidents and help strengthen detection, response and resilience across a complex technology estate.

Collaborating with internal technology teams and external partners, you’ll implement and tune SIEM/EDR tools, drive security automation, perform post-incident reviews, and promote a security‑first culture across the

Qualifications

• Experience across security operations and incident management.
• Experience with monitoring and detection technologies.
• Understanding of endpoint, identity and cloud security.
• Experience working within Microsoft 365 environments.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and security 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 improve visibility and reduce false positives.
• Identify emerging threats, vulnerabilities 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 the implementation of security controls, policies and standards.
• Act as a key liaison for managed SOC and security partners.
• Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and application teams.
• Provide technical security guidance to internal stakeholders.
• Help embed a security‑first culture across the organisation.

Skills

Security operations

Incident management

Threat detection

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

CrowdStrike

Splunk

IBM QRadar

SOAR platforms

EDR

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our cyber security team, blending hands-on security engineering with incident response. You'll monitor threats, triage alerts, respond to incidents and help strengthen detection, response and resilience across a complex technology estate.

Collaborating with internal technology teams and external partners, you’ll implement and tune SIEM/EDR tools, drive security automation, perform post-incident reviews, and promote a security‑first culture across the