Security Engineer – Contract

£550 per day | 12-month contract | Hybrid | 3 days onsite

We are currently looking for Security Engineers to join a major security-focused programme on a 12-month contract, with 2 positions available. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Security Engineer to work across security operations, detection and response engineering, threat hunting and security automation within a collaborative, enterprise environment.

The role

As a Security Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development and continuous improvement of security capabilities, helping to strengthen detection, response and security monitoring across the organisation. You will work closely with security, engineering and wider technology teams to develop effective security solutions, integrate security telemetry and automate security processes.

Key responsibilities & experience

We are looking for experience across a number of the following areas:

• SIEM Engineering – designing, developing and maintaining SIEM capabilities.
• Detection Engineering – developing and tuning security detections and rules.
• Response Engineering – improving and developing security incident response capabilities.
• Threat Hunting – proactively identifying suspicious activity, threats and attack patterns.
• Security Telemetry Integration – integrating and leveraging security data and telemetry from multiple sources.
• SOAR Automation – developing security orchestration and automated response workflows.
• Secure CI/CD Pipelines – embedding security into development and deployment processes.
• Strong understanding of modern cybersecurity principles, security monitoring and operational security.
• Ability to investigate complex security problems and develop practical technical solutions.
• Experience working collaboratively with security, engineering and wider technology teams.