Senior Detection And Response Engineer

Langham Recruitment; Great Chesterford; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Detection and Response Engineer to enhance its Cyber team. This role involves responding to security incidents, improving detection processes, and leading threat hunting efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in security roles, focusing on cloud security, especially with AWS. The position offers a competitive salary up to £90K and flexible working conditions, including remote options and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Private Healthcare

Minimum 6% Pension contributions

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience as a Security Engineer, particularly in cloud environments.
• Strong background in cloud security and AWS services.
• Experience with SIEM and security automation.

Responsibilities

• Respond to security events and perform incident analysis.
• Automate workflows to improve response times for security events.
• Lead threat hunting efforts and collaborate with engineering teams.

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

Threat hunting

AWS services

Scripting or programming

Communication skills

Data analysis

Forensics

Job description

Senior Detection and Response Engineer | Gaming | Cambridge / Hybrid | Upto £90K

We're partnering with a successful games company in Cambridge looking for a Security Engineer to join their Cyber team.

What you'll be doing:

• Responding to security events, triage, perform investigation, and incident analysis
• Building and improving processes and technologies used for detection and response
• Automate workflows and improve identification and response time for security events
• Build and optmise detection rules, runbooks and incident playbooks for new and existing detections
• Developing tools and systems to gather security telemetry from cloud production environments
• Leading threat hunting efforts and identifying signals to enhance security controls
• Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering teams to embed security best practices
• Driving continuous process improvement and helping create a culture of learning from incidents
• Participating in an on‑call rotation once every 4 weeks to support critical incident response

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years experinece in a Security Engineer role, with experience in security monitoring, incident response, and threat hunting in a cloud environment
• Strong background in cloud security, especially AWS services, ECS, and container environments
• Proficiency with scripting or programming for security automation and detection-as-code
• Knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and MITRE ATT&CK principles
• Experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms. Experiece with Red Canary or
• Strong communication skills and a proven track record of communicating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Expertise on AWS security controls and services.
• Experience leveraging coding for automation, alert enrichment and detections
• Hands‑on experience with data analysis, modeling, and correlation at scale
• Operating systems internals and forensics experience for macOS, Windows & Linux
• Experience developing tools and automation using common DevOps toolsets and programming languages
• Understanding of malware functionality and persistence mechanisms
• Ability to analyze endpoint, network, and application logs for anomalous events
• Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team

Package and Benefits

• Up to 90K with some flexibility for the right candidate
• Ideally, 2 days a month onsite.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling.
• Life Insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
• Flexible working hours.
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
• On call rota once every 4 weeks for critical risks. Time off in Leiu given