Hybrid Senior Security & Data Engineer (SC Clearance) — AWS, Splunk, Cribl

Searchability; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

2 days onsite per week

30 days annual leave

Employer-matched pension

Parental leave

Counselling & wellbeing support

Career development and training

Flexible benefits allowance

Job summary

Searchability is seeking a Senior Security and Data Engineer to join its cyber security practice and help modernise critical security capabilities across complex cloud environments.

The role blends hands-on security engineering with data engineering to build secure, scalable monitoring solutions using AWS, Splunk, Cribl and related technologies for UK public sector clients. You will collaborate with security analysts and government stakeholders to deliver resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AWS cloud security engineering experience.
• Experience with Splunk, including SPL queries and detection rules.
• Knowledge of log ingestion, streaming pipelines and data normalisation.
• Experience with Cribl, Kinesis, S3 and SQS.
• Understanding of security controls, encryption and identity management.
• Experience working within UK Government or public sector environments.

Responsibilities

• Developing and optimising security log ingestion pipelines using Cribl and AWS technologies.
• Managing security telemetry from AWS services including CloudTrail, GuardDuty, S3 and Kinesis.
• Supporting Splunk SIEM development, detection engineering and alert optimisation.
• Improving data processing, normalisation and storage to enhance detection capabilities.
• Troubleshooting ingestion issues, improving performance and reducing unnecessary data volumes.
• Collaborating with security analysts and government stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Skills

AWS security engineering

Splunk experience

Security monitoring

Data ingestion pipelines

Cloud security understanding

Tools

Cribl

Kinesis

S3

SQS

CloudTrail

GuardDuty

Job description

Searchability is seeking a Senior Security and Data Engineer to join its cyber security practice and help modernise critical security capabilities across complex cloud environments.

The role blends hands-on security engineering with data engineering to build secure, scalable monitoring solutions using AWS, Splunk, Cribl and related technologies for UK public sector clients. You will collaborate with security analysts and government stakeholders to deliver resilient systems.