Security Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native Security & SIEM

IBM SiXworks; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical cover

Life Assurance

Generous pension

Bonus and professional development

On-site parking

Gym, café & restaurant on site

Job summary

SiXworks is a specialist digital innovation partner delivering secure, mission‑critical technology to Defence and National Security organisations. We focus on digital experimentation, secure‑by‑design architecture, cloud technologies, and rapid application development to help our customers move faster and stay ahead of evolving challenges.

Our team combines expertise from across technology, business, and operational backgrounds including the armed forces creating a collaborative environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Security Engineer, Platform Engineer, or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience managing and administering SIEM tooling (e.g. Splunk).
• Experience deploying vulnerability scanning and analysis tooling (e.g. Nessus).

Responsibilities

• Deploy and maintain secure Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Administer Splunk for logging, monitoring, alerting and threat detection.
• Operate Nessus for vulnerability scanning and remediation tracking.
• Integrate security tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate security with scripting and IaC approaches.
• Collaborate with Eng/DevOps to embed security practices.
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code and documentation for security tooling.
• Document security tooling configurations.

Skills

Ownership

Critical thinking

Team collaboration

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

Splunk

Nessus

CI/CD

Security best practices

Threat modelling

Defense domain

Tools

Splunk

Nessus

CI/CD tooling

Job description

SiXworks is a specialist digital innovation partner delivering secure, mission‑critical technology to Defence and National Security organisations. We focus on digital experimentation, secure‑by‑design architecture, cloud technologies, and rapid application development to help our customers move faster and stay ahead of evolving challenges.

Our team combines expertise from across technology, business, and operational backgrounds including the armed forces creating a collaborative environment