Senior Consultant or Manager, Cyber Security Operations Engineer

Deloitte (UK); California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte UK is seeking a Cyber Defence specialist to join its Technology & Transformation practice. You will research and implement cutting-edge SOC solutions, develop data models and ML-enabled analytics to protect clients against evolving threats.

Work with Senior SecOps Engineers to deliver SIEM, SOAR, and data analytics infrastructure across diverse client environments, enabling proactive threat detection and rapid response.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python, C#, or R with hands‑on development experience.
• Experience delivering technology solutions for security workloads.
• Hands‑on with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR or related SOC tooling.
• Understanding data flow architectures and scalable data models.
• Cloud experience across GCP, AWS or Azure for hosting data analytics.
• Knowledge of ML/AI concepts, data ingestion and feature engineering.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Research and prototype approaches/tools to stay at the cutting edge of Cyber Defence.
• Influence macro security strategy and set direction for client engagements.
• Support the SOC ecosystem including SIEM, SOAR, data analytics platforms and data ingestion tooling.
• R&D on new concepts and anomaly/intrusion detection techniques.
• Deliver analytics engineering requirements across Cybersecurity initiatives.
• Build data management platforms and scalable data models for clients.
• Foster strong Deloitte/client relationships and contribute to renewals.

Skills

Python

C#

R

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

Google SecOps

CrowdStrike

Wiz

Cribl

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender XDR

Job description

Cyber security is critical to every organisation. We are shaping strategies and transforming the management of cyber risk, and we need you to join us. You’ll build strong relationships as one of the areas of our cyber practice with over 450 extremely talented individuals in the UK alone, as part of a Technology and Transformation practice of 7500 people. Cyber security is a business problem, not just a technical problem, and we need people with a diverse array of backgrounds and skills sets to help our clients solve it. Join us and you will help our clients solve the latest cyber security challenges, in a business with very significant growth ambitions enjoying the kind of professional development that will set your potential free.

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Connect to your opportunity

This is your opportunity to join Deloitte Technology & Transformation in our Cyber Defence team; the dedicated home for next-gen SOC and preventative cloud security advisory and implementation for our clients.

Your role

Given the nature of our clients you will research and experiment with different approaches and tooling to ensure we remain on the cutting edge of Cyber Defence, you will influence our macro approach as part of our leadership, whilst also setting the direction for specific clients demands.

The role reports to our Senior SecOps Engineers, supporting on the building of solutions for client across the SOC ecosystem such as SIEM, SOAR, Data Analytics Platforms and Data Ingestion infrastructure/ tooling. Part of the role requires independent research and development, applying new concepts and innovation within Cybersecurity anomaly/intrusion detection.

• Support projects/workstreams delivering Security Operations solutions, platforms and tooling to our clients and leveraged by analysts and threat hunters
• Help build new ways of using data and advanced analytic technologies effectively to support analyst/threat hunting workflows.
• Refine existing and develop new data models, leveraging big data models, Machine Learning and AI.
• Delivering critical analytics engineering requirements across Cybersecurity.
• Supporting the development of new models, detections, and automations to protect against advanced and emerging threats.
• Build Data management platforms and solutions.
• Develop positive working relationships with Deloitte and client teams.
• Involvement in the determination of support contract development and renewals.

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Your professional experience

• Proficient programming skills in at least one of Python, C#, "R" or similar preferred.
• Experience delivering technology solutions.
• Experience with at least one SOC solution i.e. SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR and Data Management Tooling, preferably Google SecOps (formerly Chronicle/Simplify), Crowdstrike, Wiz, Cribl, Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR
• Understanding of implementing data flow process and architectures
• Understanding of building Data models and platforms/tools for hosting, managing & manipulating models.
• Knowledge of ML/AI, how they function, how to manage data ingestion, synthesizing data and predicting outcomes
• Experience in Cloud computing, building and managing environments to host data analysis/science processes, preferred GCP but also AWS and Azure applicable
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where design, build, testing and operations are aligned within a multi-modal model, managing pipeline delivery, iterative improvements and code bases.
• Strong problem solving skills and a track record of solving complex issues by leveraging data solutions
• Able to represent Deloitte with authority and credibility
• A leader
• A listener
• Sees the solution not just the problems
• Ability to see the situation from the client's perspective
• Attention to detail and multitasking skills
• Able to make decisions, make commitments and take action
• Applies knowledge of products/services, customer needs, and technology, to capitalise on opportunities
• Ability to balance priorities
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working