Senior SOC Engineer: AI-Driven Security & Automation

Tata Consultancy Services; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension and health care

Laptop and phone provided

Extensive training resources

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is hiring a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) for a hybrid role based in Warrington or Leamington Spa. You will design, implement, and optimize security monitoring, detection, and automation across large enterprise environments, driving AI-driven security initiatives and reducing analyst effort.

We value experience with SIEM/EDR, AI agent workflows, and security automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cyber security, CS, IT, or related field.
• 8+ years of SOC, detection engineering, or security engineering experience.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale SIEM and EDR solutions.
• Experience with AI-driven security initiatives and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize security monitoring, detection, response, and automation capabilities across large enterprise environments.
• Develop, tune, and optimize detection rules, correlation searches, alerting content, and threat use cases.
• Build automated playbooks and orchestration to streamline security operations.
• Develop integrations between SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, and cloud platforms.
• Provide dashboards, reporting, and metrics to measure SOC performance.
• Support incident response, threat hunting, and security investigations.

Skills

Detection Engineering

Detection Fine-Tuning

Python scripting

AI for Security Operations

SOAR and Security Automation

API Integrations

Rule Development

Leadership

Communication skills

Critical thinking

AI agents experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cyber security, Computer Science, IT, or related field

Tools

Microsoft SC-200

Microsoft SC-100

AZ-500

CEH

SIEM/EDR tooling

Logic Apps

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services is hiring a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) for a hybrid role based in Warrington or Leamington Spa. You will design, implement, and optimize security monitoring, detection, and automation across large enterprise environments, driving AI-driven security initiatives and reducing analyst effort.

We value experience with SIEM/EDR, AI agent workflows, and security automation.