Senior SOC Security Engineer (6 month FTC)

Totum Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Totum Partners is seeking a hands-on security engineering professional to build and deliver security controls supporting critical Change initiatives, including SIEM, PKI/BYOK integrations, Defender for Cloud and Purview configuration.

You will design, configure and improve security solutions across a complex environment, with strong Azure, M365 and hybrid environment security knowledge, and participate in incident/change/problem management, including some out-of-hours work.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on SOC engineering experience across IT security, network security, systems engineering or comparable enterprise environments.
• Strong Azure, M365, cloud security, network architecture and hybrid environment security knowledge.
• Experience with SIEM technologies, security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, patch compliance, server security and endpoint security.
• Proficiency with Windows, Linux, command-line tools and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Awareness of security frameworks - OWASP, NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, ISMS and GDPR.
• Experience with automation, security testing, forensic investigation activities, DLP monitoring, privileged access, key management or HSM infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver security controls supporting critical Change initiatives including SIEM and PKI/BYOK integrations.
• Design, configure and improve security solutions across a complex environment.
• Participate in incident, change and problem management, including occasional out-of-hours work.
• Perform ongoing monitoring and response to security incidents in a hybrid environment.

Skills

SOC engineering

Azure

M365

Cloud security

Hybrid security

Tools

SIEM technologies

PowerShell

Python

Automation tooling

Job description

• The primary function of the role is to build and deliver security controls supporting critical Change initiatives including SIEM and PKI/BYOK integrations, Defender for Cloud and Purview configuration.
• This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone with strong Microsoft, Azure, cloud and enterprise security experience who can design, configure and improve security solutions across a complex environment.
• The role includes participation in incident, change and problem management, with some out-of-hours work required for planned change, maintenance or urgent security response.

Skills Rerquired

• Extensive hands-on SOC engineering experience across IT security, network security, systems engineering or comparable enterprise environments.
• Strong Azure, M365, cloud security, network architecture and hybrid environment security knowledge.
• Proven ability to design, configure, implement and improve security technologies, controls, tooling and processes.
• Experience with SIEM technologies, security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, patch compliance, server security and endpoint security.
• Proficiency with Windows, Linux, command-line tools and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python.
• Awareness of security frameworks - OWASP, NIST, CIS, ISO 27001, ISMS and GDPR.
• Experience with automation, security testing, forensic investigation activities, DLP monitoring, privileged access, key management or HSM infrastructure.

This role offers hybrid working - 40% onsite working.