Senior Application Engineer (SIEM)

Leonardo; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 44,171 - 61,950; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Pension scheme

Mental health support

Online courses access

Flexible benefits allowance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to maintain and improve enterprise platforms underpinning national security. The role offers a blended hybrid model with onsite Yeovil work to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and customers.

You will lead, configure, and enhance security tooling platforms, participate in architecture and lifecycle activities, and mentor junior engineers while delivering secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting, configuring, and enhancing security tooling platforms (SIEM, EDR, or similar).
• Ability to solve moderately complex application-related issues and contribute to secure, scalable solutions.
• Understanding of application lifecycle management, integration patterns, and secure-by-design principles.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and business teams.
• Proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

• Support, configure, and enhance security tooling platforms (e.g. SIEM, EDR) that underpin threat detection and response.
• Deliver engineering tasks within defined work packages, ensuring alignment with user needs, security requirements, and service-level objectives.
• Contribute to application architecture, integration, and lifecycle activities under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, service management, and business teams to resolve technical issues.
• Mentor junior engineers and specialists, supporting their development and promoting best practices.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, including automation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, ITSM processes, and cyber security policies.

Skills

Security tooling knowledge

Problem solving

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Continuous improvement

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability management

SOAR

Active Directory

Job description

Job Description

Salary Range £44,171 - £61,950

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Your Impact

Are you ready to support and enhance enterprise applications that underpin national security and critical services? At Leonardo UK, our Senior Application Engineers play a key role in maintaining and improving business‑critical platforms — ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned with operational needs. You’ll work collaboratively across engineering and service teams, contributing to technical delivery and continuous improvement.

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team‑centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Application Engineer to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on delivering, maintaining, and improving platform and systems engineering solutions that underpin critical defence, government and public sector services.

What You Will Do As a Senior Application Engineer

• Support, configure, and enhance security tooling platforms (e.g. SIEM, EDR) that underpin threat detection and response
• Deliver engineering tasks within defined work packages, ensuring alignment with user needs, security requirements, and service‑level objectives.
• Contribute to application architecture, integration, and lifecycle activities under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, service management, and business teams to resolve technical issues.
• Mentor junior engineers and specialists, supporting their development and promoting best practices.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives, including automation, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, ITSM processes, and cyber security policies.

What you’ll bring

• Solid experience in supporting, configuring, and enhancing security tooling platforms (e.g. SIEM, EDR, or similar)
• Ability to solve moderately complex application‑related issues and contribute to secure, scalable solutions.
• Understanding of application lifecycle management, integration patterns, and secure‑by‑design principles.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and business teams.
• A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

Core areas (must have)

• Support, configuration, and enhancement of security tooling platforms (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management)
• Log and event management including ingestion, parsing, and correlation of system and security logs
• Integration of security tooling with platform, network, and identity services
• Operational support and tuning of security tooling in live environments
• Application lifecycle management (deployment, maintenance, upgrades, decommissioning)
• Integration patterns and identity management (e.g. SSO, RBAC, API integration)
• Secure‑by‑design principles and application security practices
• Technical problem solving and resolution of application‑related issues
• Collaboration with engineering, SOC, and service management teams
• Experience working within security and ITIL‑aligned environments
• Delivery within secure / enterprise / defence environments

Desirable

• Experience with SIEM / EDR / vulnerability management tools (e.g. Splunk, Trellix, Tenable, or similar)
• SOAR platforms and automation of security response workflows
• Integration with monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems
• Threat detection, analytics, and use case development
• Experience integrating with enterprise services (Active Directory, identity platforms)
• Exposure to DevOps / CI‑CD practices
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) will apply. This role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance prior to starting. For more information and guidance please visit https //careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Location

This role will be based at one of our UK sites - Yeovil.

Why join us

• Time to Recharge: Generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi‑days each year.
• Secure your Future: Award‑winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee‑led networks.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits such as private healthcare, lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.
• Flexible Working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options.

Primary Location

GB - Yeovil - Lysander Rd

Contract Type

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Onsite

Inclusion Statement

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.