Senior SecOps Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Leeds; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK Fintech firm is seeking an experienced Senior SecOps Engineer to enhance their cyber defence capabilities. You will play a crucial role in developing detection rules and responding to incidents in a greenfield environment. The ideal candidate has substantial SOC experience, particularly in hybrid-cloud setups, and expertise in Detection-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code. This role offers a competitive salary in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a SOC environment.
• Experience with Azure and AWS in hybrid-cloud setups.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Security tools like Defender and KQL.

Responsibilities

• Act as a lead on complex incidents and investigations.
• Develop new detection rules and automate tasks.
• Research threat actors to develop safeguarding rules.
• Mentor junior team members during investigations.

Skills

SOC experience

Hybrid-cloud environments (Azure/AWS)

Detection-as-Code (DAC)

Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC)

Microsoft Security stack

Job description

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Senior SecOps Engineer, leeds, west yorkshire

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Client:

Lawrence Harvey

Location:

leeds, west yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

22.08.2025

Expiry Date:

06.10.2025

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Job Description:

Location – Fully Remote

Salary - £80-90k + Bonus + Benefits

Currently working with a UK Fintech firm who are in the process of building out their Cyber Defence capability and looking to bring in a Senior SecOps Engineer with experience working in cloud-native environment and automation-first mindset.

This is a wide ranging role where you’ll be responsible for both Engineering and Analysis; monitoring and responding to incidents whilst also developing new detection rules and enhancing their monitoring infrastructure and tooling. This is a relatively greenfield SecOps environment where security and detections have been built in from inception at the development stage – that mindset and experience implementing and deploying Detection-as-Code (DAC) and Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) will be essential.

This is an incredible opportunity for an experienced SecOps specialist with experience of both SecOps Analysis and Engineering to join a growing yet established firm at a crucial point as they completely build out their Information and Cyber Security capability. Whilst they have the fundamentals in place, this is a relatively greenfield SOC buildout, where you will work alongside the SOC Manager to shape their SOC monitoring, detection and response function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a lead and technical escalation point on the most complex incidents and investigations.
• Develop and engineer new detection rules, automating monotonous tasks where possible and looking for opportunities to implement and deploy Detection-as-Code (DAC) and Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) wherever possible.
• Proactively research emerging and potential threat actors as a way of developing rules to safeguard against potential future threats.
• Mentor and train junior team members through complex incident response investigations.

Key Requirements:

• Significant experience working in a SOC environment (4 years minimum), dealing with and responding to escalated and most high profile incidents.
• Experience working in hybrid-cloud SOC environments – Azure/AWS preferably.
• Practical experience both implementing and deploying DAC and IAC.
• Comprehensive knowledge and experience utilising/fine-tuning the Microsoft Security stack – Defender, Sentinel, KQL, etc.
• Ability to articulate specific projects that you have built, developed or led on, specific to SecOps Engineering and Automation.

If you’re an experienced SecOps Engineer, looking to shape how one of the most innovative Mobile Payments FinTech firms build out their cyber defence capability and leave a lasting impact on one of the most reputable organisations whilst working alongside a team of genuine Cyber Security SMEs, click the to apply or get in touch directly – [emailprotected]