Senior Security Engineer - Monitoring & Detection

Made Tech; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days Holiday

Flexible Working Hours

Flexible Parental Leave

Remote Working (part-time)

Job summary

Made Tech is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in the Cyber practice to own end-to-end security of systems, embedding security into delivery pipelines, and building tooling for safe-by-default government services.

You will operate in a live SOC, own detection pipelines, and translate technical risk for civil servant stakeholders while collaborating across teams. A strong emphasis on mentoring and practical security assurance is evident.

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; track signal-to-noise and false positives to keep high fidelity alerts.
• Quality validation of detections and risk signals.
• Provide feedback loops with L1–L3 analysts to keep detections grounded.
• Manage log ingestion on Cribl — routing, filtering, normalisation, and enrichment at the edge.
• Reduce data volume via deduplication, trimming, and NetFlow summarisation; manage streaming/storage (Kinesis, S3, Security Lake).
• Apply data tiering and normalise into OCSF; enforce encryption and least-privilege access.
• Translate technical risk into business/policy terms for civil servant stakeholders.
• Mentor junior/mid-level engineers and act as technical point of contact across teams.

Skills

Cloud security

Splunk (SPL)

YARA

EDR detection

Zero Trust

Identity security

Secrets management

Network segmentation

UK public sector

Tools

Cribl

Kinesis

S3

Amazon Security Lake

OCSF

Job description

Made Tech is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in the Cyber practice to own end-to-end security of systems, embedding security into delivery pipelines, and building tooling for safe-by-default government services.

You will operate in a live SOC, own detection pipelines, and translate technical risk for civil servant stakeholders while collaborating across teams. A strong emphasis on mentoring and practical security assurance is evident.