SOC Engineer - Cyber
16 days ago
Birmingham
Location: Birmingham (Hybrid – 3 days onsite) Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 + Excellent Benefits Contract Type: PermanentThe Role – SOC Engineer - Cyber We’re looking for a hands-on SOC Engineer to join a rapidly growing Cyber Security function within a large enterprise technology environment. This is an opportunity to work in one of the most modern and well-equipped SOC environments in the market, supporting enterprise customers across a broad range of managed security services and cloud technologies. This is a genuinely engineering-led role rather than a traditional SOC analyst position. You’ll be heavily involved in infrastructure, cloud security, security tooling, automation, and operational cyber engineering across enterprise-scale environments. Working from a Birmingham-based SOC three days a week, you’ll play a key role in supporting customer environments, improving cyber capabilities, and helping showcase a cutting-edge SOC environment to visiting customers and stakeholders.What’s in it for you as our Cyber SOC Engineer? • Salary of £45,000 - £50,000, • Hybrid working environment, • Excellent company benefits package, • Flexible benefits scheme, • Access to industry-leading SOC technology and tooling, • Dedicated training and development time each week, • Fully funded learning opportunities and partner-led certifications, • Opportunities to attend conferences and industry events, • Career progression within a large enterprise technology organisation, • Exposure to enterprise-scale cloud and cyber environments, • Supportive, collaborative, and highly technical team environmentDuties as SOC Engineer - Cyber As a Cyber SOC Engineer, you will:, • Act as a technical escalation point and engineering SME across SOC technologies including SIEM, MDR/XDR, EDR, vulnerability management, and cloud security tooling, • Support, maintain, and improve cyber security infrastructure across enterprise customer environments, • Work closely with internal teams and customers to onboard, configure, and optimise security technologies and services, • Investigate and resolve platform issues, security alerts, log source health problems, and tooling-related incidents, • Configure and support technologies such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Tenable, and related security platforms, • Assist with vulnerability scanning, remediation support, and operational security improvements, • Contribute to automation and scripting initiatives using tools such as KQL, PowerShell, Python, or Bash, • Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and security playbooks, • Support governance and compliance activities aligned to standards such as ISO27001, GDPR, and NCSC guidance, • Work collaboratively across infrastructure, cloud, networking, and cyber teams to improve service delivery and operational resilience, • Stay up to date with emerging cyber threats, technologies, and security best practice, • Contribute to continual improvement initiatives across the SOC functionWho are we looking for as our Cyber SOC Engineer? We’re looking for a technically capable and proactive engineer who enjoys solving problems, learning new technologies, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. This role would suit someone from a SOC Engineering, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, or Cyber Engineering background who enjoys hands-on technical work rather than purely monitoring or analyst-based responsibilities. You’ll ideally have experience with:, • Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender, • EDR/XDR/MDR technologies, • Vulnerability management tools such as Tenable or Qualys, • Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune, or AWS environments, • Security tooling, infrastructure, and cloud platforms, • Linux and Windows operating systems, • SIEM technologies and security monitoring, • Basic scripting or automation using KQL, PowerShell, Python, or Bash, • ITIL environments and structured change control processes, • Firewall, endpoint, or cloud security technologies We’d especially like to hear from candidates who are:, • Strong communicators who can work confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Organised, collaborative, and eager to learn, • Comfortable working in a customer-facing environment, • Self-driven and proactive in solving problems, • Able to take ownership while also working well within a team, • Interested in developing their cyber engineering and cloud security expertise further Relevant certifications such as SC-200, SC-900, AZ-500, CISSP, or similar would be advantageous, but practical engineering experience is equally important. Please note: Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC/BPSS), including having the right to work in the UK and meeting residency requirements. INDHS
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