SIEM Engineer

La Fosse Associates; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm seeks a SIEM Engineer to design and manage SIEM solutions with Splunk. Responsibilities include implementing alerts and enhancing threat detection capabilities. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in SIEM deployment and security visibility improvements. Offering a day rate of £500 and a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing, implementing, and managing SIEM solutions.
• Ability to develop detection use cases and monitoring alerts.
• Proficient in performance tuning and optimisation of SIEM solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage SIEM solutions using Splunk.
• Develop and maintain detection use cases and response playbooks.
• Monitor and optimise Splunk performance and security event logging.

Skills

Splunk experience

SIEM solutions design

Threat detection

Security event logging

Job description

Overview

SIEM Engineer

Contract details

• Day Rate: £500pd
• IR35 Status: Outside
• Travel: Hybrid London
• Duration: 6 months

This SIEM Engineer will have the following experience:

• Design, implement, and manage SIEM solutions using Splunk, including data onboarding, creating correlation rules, and developing dashboards and reports to improve security visibility.
• Develop and maintain detection use cases, alerts, and response playbooks based on threat intelligence and compliance requirements.
• Monitor, tune, and optimise Splunk performance to ensure availability, scalability, and accuracy of security event logging and analysis.
• Work closely with SOC analysts, incident response, and threat hunting teams to enhance threat detection, investigation capabilities, and response effectiveness.