Senior Security Engineer: Detection & SOC Lead (Remote)

Made Tech Group; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Smart Tech scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Benefits allowance

Job summary

Made Tech Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer - Monitoring & Detection to own end-to-end security of government-facing services. You will build and tune detection logic in a live SOC, manage log ingestion pipelines, and translate technical risk into policy terms for civil servants.

You will work hands-on across SIEM/detection tooling and collaborate with stakeholders to accelerate secure delivery in the public sector.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud security experience — AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Advanced Splunk (SPL); YARA, and EDR detection logic.
• Experience with Cribl, Kinesis, S3, Amazon Security Lake, and OCSF/data normalisation.
• Strong grasp of Zero Trust, identity-first security, secrets management, and network segmentation.
• Experience working with or alongside UK Government / public sector stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build & tune detection rules across Splunk (SPL), YARA and EDR platforms.
• Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK; monitor signal-to-noise and reduce false positives.
• Test new/updated rules via replay and load testing; run red-team scenarios.
• Collaborate with L1–L3 analysts to keep detections grounded in real operations.
• Manage log ingestion on Cribl – routing, filtering, normalisation and edge enrichment.
• Optimise data volume through deduplication, trimming, and NetFlow summarisation; manage storage.
• Apply data standards like hot/warm/cold tiering; normalise into OCSF; enforce encryption and least privilege.

Skills

Cloud security experience

Zero Trust

Identity-first security

Secrets management

Network segmentation

Splunk SPL

YARA

EDR detection logic

Cribl

Kinesis

S3

Amazon Security Lake

OCSF / data normalisation

Public sector experience

Tools

Cribl

Kinesis

S3

Amazon Security Lake

OCSF

Job description

Made Tech Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer - Monitoring & Detection to own end-to-end security of government-facing services. You will build and tune detection logic in a live SOC, manage log ingestion pipelines, and translate technical risk into policy terms for civil servants.

You will work hands-on across SIEM/detection tooling and collaborate with stakeholders to accelerate secure delivery in the public sector.