Senior Security Operations Engineer

Smartedge Solutions; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartedge Solutions is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) to join our hybrid, permanent team in Warrington or Leamington Spa. You will design and integrate security logs, build detection rules, and develop automated playbooks to improve threat detection and response across cloud, on-premises, and tooling ecosystems.

The role emphasizes AI-driven detection, automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing detection logic to detect TTPs and IoCs.
• Ability to fine-tune detections and reduce false positives.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Effective written and spoken English communication for technical and non-native stakeholders.
• Leadership and mentoring to drive high-quality delivery.
• Experience with AI agents and agentic workflows in security tools.
• Proficiency in building detection rules and automation playbooks.
• Experience with SOAR and general security automation.
• Knowledge of AI for Security Operations and integration of AI agents.
• API integration knowledge and logic app development.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, onboard, and integrate security logs from cloud, infrastructure, apps, and security tools.
• Design and implement log ingestion pipelines, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and data quality controls.
• Develop, tune, and optimize detection rules, correlations, and alert content to improve fidelity.
• Design and build automated playbooks and orchestration for security operations.
• Develop integrations between SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, vulnerability management, and cloud tools.
• Optimize security tooling infrastructure for availability, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop dashboards and metrics for SOC performance and platform health.
• Support incident response, threat hunting, and investigations through detection engineering and automation.
• Lead AI initiatives to improve alert triage, investigations, and response decisions.
• Identify AI-driven use cases to reduce manual SOC activities and accelerate investigations.
• Collaborate with security, infra, cloud, and application teams to deliver scalable monitoring.

Skills

Detection Engineering

Detection Fine-Tuning

Critical Thinking

Communication (English)

Leadership

AI Agents

Rule Development

SOAR & Security Automation

API Integrations

Security Tool Administration

Performance Metrics

SOC Process Development

Job description

Company Description

Smartedge Solutions is a globally recognized technology firm established in 2005, headquartered in London with 15 offices across Europe. The company provides a full range of IT services and Professional Recruitment Services (PRS), with particular strength in the IT and Engineering domains. Smartedge leverages an extensive, authenticated network of over 100,000 consultants to deliver tailored, effective solutions. The organization is focused on transforming client performance and helping them gain a competitive edge through its SMART solutions. Team members join a collaborative, international environment with opportunities to work on diverse, high-impact projects.

Role: Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3)

Work Location:

Warrington or Leamington Spa

Role Type:

Permanent

Mode of Working:

Hybrid

Key responsibilities:

• Evaluate, onboard, and integrate security logs from cloud, infrastructure, application, and security technologies.
• Design and Implement log ingestion pipelines, parsing logic, normalization standards, enrichment processes, and data quality controls.
• Develop, tune, and optimize detection rules, correlation searches, alerting content, and threat detection use cases to improve detection fidelity and reduce false positives.
• Design and build automated playbooks, automated response workflows, and orchestration capabilities to streamline security operations.
• Develop integrations between SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, vulnerability management, ticketing systems, cloud platforms, and third-party security tools.
• Optimizing security tooling infrastructure, ensuring platform availability, scalability, performance, and operational resilience.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, and metrics to measure detection coverage, operational efficiency, platform health, and SOC performance.
• Support incident response, threat hunting, and security investigations through detection engineering, automation, and continuous service improvement.
• Lead AI and machine learning initiatives to improve alert triage, investigation workflows, threat detection, correlation, and response decision-making.
• Identify and implement AI-driven use cases that reduce manual SOC activities, accelerate investigations, enhance analyst productivity, and improve overall response effectiveness.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver scalable and sustainable security monitoring solutions.

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Detection Engineering (taking Threat Intel and designing detection logic to detect TTPs and IoCs).
• Detection Fine-Tuning and false positive reduction.
• Critical thinking skills and problem solving
• Communication skills (able to convey complex ideas in simple terms to both non-native English speaker and management)
• Leadership qualities, able to inspire team mates to delivery to the highest quality
• Experienced with AI agents (both personal use and implementation of agentic workflows in security tools
• Rule Development
• SOAR and general Security Automation
• AI for Security Operations (implement and optimize AI Agents)
• API Integrations (learn and develop logic apps)
• Security Tool Administration (get the most of the inbuild capabilities)
• Design automated performance metric reporting
• Support the development of SOC processes to take advantage of the changing AI agent landscape.