SecOps Engineer: Threat Detection & IR

Akkodis; South Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our security operations function, hybrid across monitoring, incident response and engineering to protect business-critical systems. You will detect threats, respond to incidents, tune tooling like SIEM/EDR, and drive security improvements while collaborating with infrastructure, cloud and application teams.

The role offers a hybrid working pattern and exposure to modern security tooling and practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations and incident management.
• Proficient with security monitoring and detection technologies.
• Knowledge of endpoint, identity and cloud security.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 environments.
• Understanding of vulnerability management and best practices.

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

Security Monitoring

Cloud Security

Endpoint Security

Communication Skills

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Splunk

IBM QRadar

Azure Security Services

SOAR platforms

EDR

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a SecOps Engineer to join our security operations function, hybrid across monitoring, incident response and engineering to protect business-critical systems. You will detect threats, respond to incidents, tune tooling like SIEM/EDR, and drive security improvements while collaborating with infrastructure, cloud and application teams.

The role offers a hybrid working pattern and exposure to modern security tooling and practices.