Senior Security Engineer - Monitoring & Detection

Made Tech Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days Holiday

Flexible Working Hours

Flexible Parental Leave

Remote Working

Paid counselling

Job summary

Made Tech Limited is seeking a Senior Security Engineer in our Cyber practice to own end-to-end security across our digital services for the UK public sector, embedding security into delivery pipelines and building tooling that keeps government services safe by default.

You will work hands-on across SIEM/detection, log ingestion and normalisation, and translate technical risk into decisions for civil servants and system owners, accelerating security assurance rather than slowing delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud security experience - AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Either: Advanced Splunk (SPL); YARA, and EDR detection logic.

Responsibilities

• Build & tune detection rules across Splunk (SPL), YARA and EDR platforms.
• Coverage & quality: map detections to MITRE ATT&CK; track signal-to-noise and false-positive rates to keep alerting high-fidelity.
• Validation: test new/updated rules via replay and load testing; run red-team scenarios for critical rules.
• Feedback loops: work with L1-L3 analysts so detections stay grounded in operational reality.
• Pipelines: manage log ingestion on Cribl - routing, filtering, normalisation, and enrichment at the edge.
• Optimisation: reduce volume via deduplication, trimming, and NetFlow summarisation; manage streaming/storage (Kinesis, S3, Amazon Security Lake).
• Standards: apply hot/warm/cold data tiering; normalise into OCSF; enforce encryption and least-privilege access.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

SIEM / Splunk

EDR detection

YARA rules

Cribl data pipelines

Threat detection tuning

UK Government/public sector experience

Tools

Splunk SPL

YARA

EDR platforms

Job description

Job description

We help UK public sector organisations build and run digital services that are secure, trustworthy, and resilient. As a Senior Security Engineer in our Cyber practice, you will need to be able to take end-to-end ownership of securing the systems we build; embedding security into delivery pipelines and building the tooling and automation that keep complex government services safe by default.

We're looking for a Senior Security Engineer- Monitoring & Detection who can build and tune detection logic in a live SOC, and own the pipelines that feed it. You'll work hands-on across SIEM/detection and log ingestion/normalisation, and translate technical risk into decisions for government stakeholders and system owners. This is a delivery role: security assurance should speed decisions up, not slow them down.

Key responsibilities

• Build & tune: detection rules across Splunk (SPL), YARA and EDR platforms.
• Coverage & quality: map detections to MITRE ATT&CK; track signal-to-noise and false-positive rates to keep alerting high-fidelity.
• Validation: test new/updated rules via replay and load testing; run red-team scenarios for critical rules.
• Feedback loops: work with L1-L3 analysts so detections stay grounded in operational reality.
• Pipelines: manage log ingestion on Cribl - routing, filtering, normalisation, and enrichment at the edge.
• Optimisation: reduce volume via deduplication, trimming, and NetFlow summarisation; manage streaming/storage (Kinesis, S3, Amazon Security Lake).
• Standards: apply hot/warm/cold data tiering; normalise into OCSF; enforce encryption and least-privilege access.

Stakeholders & Team

• Translation: turn technical risk into business/policy terms for civil servant stakeholders and system owners.
• Mentorship: support junior/mid-level engineers and act as a technical point of contact across teams.

Skills, knowledge and expertise

• Hands-on cloud security experience - AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Either: Advanced Splunk (SPL); YARA, and EDR detection logic.

or

• 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.

Job benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We're also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

• 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
• Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
• Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
• Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice

At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity.

SC Eligibility

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.

Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Working hours

Our standard hours are Monday to Friday, but the nature of this role means some work outside normal hours may be required, for example during release and change windows, planned maintenance, or to align with client operating hours. This is occasional rather than routine, and we'll always give as much notice as we can and agree it with you in advance wherever possible.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds

We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We're collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.