Senior SOC Engineer - AI-Driven Security Operations

Tata Consultancy Services; Warrington, Royal Leamington Spa; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Life assurance

Laptop

Phone

Training resources

Discounts within Tata network

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is hiring a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) to design, implement and optimize security monitoring across large enterprise environments. The role focuses on AI-driven detection, automation and threat response in a hybrid UK setting.

You will lead detection engineering, build playbooks, and integrate SIEM/SOAR with cloud and on-premise tools, improving SOC effectiveness and analyst productivity.

Qualifications

• Detection engineering to design detection logic for TTPs and IoCs.
• Fine-tuning detections to reduce false positives.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Clear communication to stakeholders, including non-native English speakers and management.
• Leadership qualities to inspire high-quality delivery.
• Experience with AI agents and agentic security workflows.
• Developing rule-based detections and automation logic.
• Experience with SOAR and security automation.
• Applying AI to Security Operations and alert triage.
• APIs integrations and logic apps development.
• Security tool administration to maximize built-in capabilities.
• Designing automated performance metric reporting.
• Supporting SOC process development for AI-enabled operations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate, onboard and integrate security logs from multiple sources.
• Design data pipelines, parsing, normalization and data quality controls.
• Develop and tune detections and alerts to improve coverage and reduce false positives.
• Build automated playbooks and response workflows for SOC operations.
• Create integrations between SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM and cloud tools.
• Ensure tooling scalability, availability and performance.
• Develop dashboards and metrics for SOC health and coverage.
• Support incident response and threat hunting through automation.
• Lead AI and ML initiatives to improve alert triage and investigations.
• Identify AI-driven use cases to reduce manual SOC work and speed responses.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable security monitoring.

Skills

Detection engineering

Detection fine-tuning

Critical thinking

Communication

Leadership

AI agents

Rule development

SOAR & security automation

AI for security operations

API integrations

Security tool administration

Automated performance metrics

SOC process design

Education

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

8+ years of SOC/Detection Engineering/Security Engineering experience

Tools

Microsoft SC-200

Microsoft SC-100

AZ-500

CEH

Python scripting

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services is hiring a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) to design, implement and optimize security monitoring across large enterprise environments. The role focuses on AI-driven detection, automation and threat response in a hybrid UK setting.

You will lead detection engineering, build playbooks, and integrate SIEM/SOAR with cloud and on-premise tools, improving SOC effectiveness and analyst productivity.