Proactive SecOps Engineer: Detect, Automate & Defend

Manchester Arndale; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to strengthen its cyber defence and measurably improve SecOps effectiveness by enhancing detection, investigation and response capabilities.

You will proactively identify weaknesses in detection coverage, platform drift and automation gaps, proposing and building pragmatic fixes with measurable outcomes across SIEM, EDR/XDR and email security.

Qualifications

• Extensive SecOps experience with a multitude of tools.
• Hands-on experience with at least one enterprise SIEM and one EDR/XDR platform.
• Strong scripting ability in Python/PowerShell/KQL and API integration knowledge.
• Proactive mindset with a track record of delivering end-to-end security improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and tune detections across SIEM, XDR and email security platforms.
• Reduce false positives and improve fidelity using data-driven methods.
• Identify gaps in coverage and engineer solutions to close them.
• Develop detections-as-code practices, including version control and CI/CD.
• Automate repetitive analyst tasks using SOAR or scripting.
• Lead onboarding of new log sources and integrations.
• Create dashboards for operational health and leadership visibility.

Skills

SecOps experience

Python

PowerShell

KQL

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

SOAR

Job description

OCS UK & Ireland is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to strengthen its cyber defence and measurably improve SecOps effectiveness by enhancing detection, investigation and response capabilities.

You will proactively identify weaknesses in detection coverage, platform drift and automation gaps, proposing and building pragmatic fixes with measurable outcomes across SIEM, EDR/XDR and email security.