Security Operations Engineer

Boku; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global provider of mobile payments solutions, Boku, is seeking a Security Operations Engineer for their London office. The role involves building infrastructure, responding to threats, and developing automation workflows within a high-performing SOC team. Ideal candidates will have strong cloud and incident response skills, contributing to Boku's mission to provide essential payment services worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3/4+ years in relevant roles.
• Experience in deploying security related IAC projects.
• Strong command of security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design automation workflows and develop use cases.
• Conduct detailed incident response and investigation.
• Develop SIEM detection content and reduce false positives.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Automation

Communication

Cloud environments

Education

SANS FOR508 or equivalent qualifications

Tools

Terraform

Azure Sentinel

O365

EDR/XDR products

Job description

Boku Inc. (BOKU.L) is the leading global provider of local mobile-first payments solutions. Global brands including Amazon, DAZN, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, Spotify, and Tencent rely on Boku to reach millions of new paying consumers who do not use credit cards with our purpose-built payment network of more than 300 local payment methods across 70+ countries. Every year, Boku processes over $10 billion in value for our customers. Incorporated in 2008, Boku is headquartered in London and San Francisco and has employees in over 39 countries around the world, including Brazil, China, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the UAE. Boku is a truly global company that takes pride in its diversity and thriving equal opportunity workplace.

Job Purpose

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Security operations engineer, to join our new and exciting SOC team here at Boku. This role will report into the Security Operations Lead, successful candidates will have a wide range of technical skills and will be instrumental in not only building the infrastructure but all the way through to conducting precise and robust incident response against basic and advanced threat actors. Working together as a highly driven team with the SecOPs lead to contribute to an industry leading, high performant Security Operations capability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Automation workflow design and use case development.
• SIEM detection content development and false positive reduction.
• Robust and detailed incident response to threats, investigation and triage of day-to-day security events.

Qualifications and experience:

• 3/4+ years in similar roles or field.
• Experience in deploying security related IAC projects at scale.
• Familiarity with SOAR and optimisation of Security Controls using automation.
• Strong communication and people soft skills.
• Experience working with multi cloud environments. (Specifically, AWS and Azure)
• Incident response and threat hunting experience.
• Demonstratable effective command of security fundamentals and concepts.

Nice to have:

• SANS FOR508 / Other equivalent qualifications.
• Personal related security projects. (Show us your stuff)
• Azure Sentinel, O365, wider Microsoft security product stack experience.
• Terraform experience.
• Tines experience.
• Experience with management and configuration of EDR/XDR products.
• Managing IAC deployments and subsequent team cloud infrastructure.