Cyber Security Consultant

£55,000 - £65,000 + bonus | Hybrid | MSP

This is a customer-facing consultancy role where you'll work with a wide range of organisations to design, develop and optimise detection and response capabilities across leading SIEM, XDR and SOAR technologies. You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong consulting skills, helping customers improve their security maturity through practical, scalable solutions.

What you'll be doing

You'll play a key role in delivering detection engineering engagements, including:

• Designing and implementing high-quality detection rules across SIEM and XDR platforms.
• Creating and optimising detection logic using KQL and other query languages.
• Developing detection use cases aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and current threat techniques.
• Assessing customer telemetry and identifying opportunities to improve visibility and detection coverage.
• Building SOAR automations, integrations and response workflows to reduce manual effort.
• Developing incident response playbooks that support effective Security Operations Centre (SOC) processes.
• Applying threat intelligence to continuously improve detections and response capabilities.
• Promoting a Detection-as-Code approach, ensuring detection content is scalable, version controlled and repeatable.
• Producing clear technical documentation, detection strategies and coverage assessments for customers.