Security Tooling Engineer

Women in Data®; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme up to 18% (employer + 5

Share Save and Share Incentive Plan

38 days annual leave + up to 5 extra

Time Off When You Need It

Inspiring Families policy

Private Healthcare

Critical Illness cover

Life Assurance

Job summary

M&G is seeking a Security Tooling Engineer to join its UK-based team in Edinburgh. The role focuses on Defender for Endpoint and Sentinel, with responsibilities across monitoring, automation, and cloud security in Azure.

You will support onboarding, audits, incident response, and drive security improvements in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience with Microsoft security technologies, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate complex risks

Qualifications

• Experience deploying, configuring and managing Microsoft security technologies, particularly Defender for Endpoint.
• Experience working with Microsoft Sentinel in an engineering environment.
• Experience working within Azure cloud environments and supporting cloud security controls.
• Experience working with log management and data ingestion technologies.
• Experience supporting audit, assurance or control testing activities.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ensuring the platform remains healthy and aligned to requirements.
• Develop, maintain and improve Defender and Sentinel capabilities, including monitoring coverage and automation opportunities.
• Support onboarding of new applications and platforms with appropriate security monitoring.
• Help ensure Security Operations Engineering services meet KPIs, KRIs and standards.
• Support AI-driven use cases within Security Operations.
• Collaborate with teams to embed security requirements into solutions.
• Maintain and enhance security log collection and ingestion capabilities (Logstash).
• Support audits, control testing, and assurance reviews.
• Participate in incident response and investigative activities.
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Prioritisation & planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Independent working

Technical explanations for non-special

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure

Logstash

Job description

At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.

The Security Tooling Engineer plays a key role in maintaining and evolving the organisation's security monitoring and endpoint protection capabilities. This role is responsible for providing subject matter expertise across Microsoft security technologies, with a particular focus on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, while supporting the wider Security Operations Engineering function.

Primary Key Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ensuring the platform remains healthy, effective and aligned to evolving security requirements.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel capabilities, including monitoring coverage, automation opportunities and operational effectiveness.
• Support the onboarding of new applications, services and technology platforms, ensuring appropriate security monitoring and detection coverage is implemented.
• Help ensure Security Operations Engineering services continue to meet agreed KPIs, KRIs and operational standards.
• Additional Responsibilities
• Support the exploration, development and deployment of AI-driven use cases within the Security Operations function.
• Collaborate with technology teams, project teams and business stakeholders to embed security operations requirements into new and existing solutions.
• Maintain and enhance security log collection and ingestion capabilities, including support for Logstash and associated integrations.
• Support internal and external audits, control testing activities and assurance reviews.
• Participate in incident response, investigations and operational support activities as required.
• Mentor and support more junior members of the team, sharing knowledge and promoting best practices across security operations and engineering disciplines.

Key Experience Required

• Experience deploying, configuring and managing Microsoft security technologies, particularly Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Experience working with Microsoft Sentinel in an engineering environment.
• Experience working within Azure cloud environments and supporting cloud security controls.
• Experience working with log management, data ingestion and integration technologies.
• Experience supporting audit, assurance or control testing activities.
• Experience collaborating with a broad range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches and tooling is highly desirable.
• Highly organised, excellent prioritisation and planning skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence using risk-based reasoning.
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team, whilst working on multiple items at the same time.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into meaningful details for non-specialist audiences.
• Passion for innovation and creating solutions that make a positive difference.
• You’re willing to take responsibility, creating better outcomes by stepping forward, using your judgement and making things happen.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

What we offer:

We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include:

• A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
• Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
• Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G

At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.

M& G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: [e-mail]

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