Senior Threat Management Security Consultant

IBM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working approaches

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & optical cover

Salary sacrifice pension

Job summary

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in London is seeking a Senior Security Consultant - Threat Management to strengthen clients' security operations across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will design detection strategies, develop content, and advise stakeholders, delivering advisory, engineering, and transformation engagements with mature SOC capabilities.

You will work with leading clients, collaborating with security teams, architects, and operations staff to drive measurable security

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience within Threat Management, Detection Engineering, Security Operations, Incident Response, or Threat Hunting environments.
• Hands-on experience with one or more major SIEM platforms.
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and threat-informed defence principles.
• Experience supporting or leading incident investigation and response activities.
• Knowledge of cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, or GCP environments.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and improving SIEM and security monitoring capabilities.
• Developing and tuning detection content, analytics rules, and correlation logic.
• Conducting threat hunting exercises aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and client threat profiles.
• Supporting incident response, investigation, and post-incident improvement activities.
• Delivering SOC maturity assessments, capability reviews, and uplift roadmaps.
• Integrating and optimising telemetry across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application environments.
• Designing and improving SOAR playbooks and automated response workflows.
• Advising clients on detection engineering standards, operational processes, and security monitoring strategy.
• Producing high-quality technical documentation, runbooks, operating procedures, and client deliverables.
• Leading workshops and presenting findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Threat Management

Detection Engineering

Security Operations

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM

KQL

Python

PowerShell

Cloud security monitoring

EDR/XDR

Stakeholder communication

Regulated environments

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

QRadar

Elastic

Chronicle

LogRhythm

Job description

IBM Consulting UK FutureNow in London is seeking a Senior Security Consultant - Threat Management to strengthen clients' security operations across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. You will design detection strategies, develop content, and advise stakeholders, delivering advisory, engineering, and transformation engagements with mature SOC capabilities.

You will work with leading clients, collaborating with security teams, architects, and operations staff to drive measurable security