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Security Operations Engineer
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🚀 Security Operations Engineer | £55,000 (flexibility for the right candidate) | Hybrid (Leeds)
We're looking for a Security Operations Engineer to join a growing Security Operations team within a well-established Managed Service Provider. This isn't a traditional SOC Analyst position — you'll take ownership of customers' operational security, balancing hands-on engineering with governance activities to improve security posture across multiple client environments.
You'll work across technologies including Microsoft Defender, Mimecast, Barracuda, CrowdStrike, Bitdefender and Microsoft 365, helping customers strengthen their cyber resilience through proactive vulnerability management, tooling optimisation and security best practice. As one of the senior members of a small SecOps team, you'll also mentor junior engineers and help shape the future of the managed security offering.
If you want a role where you genuinely influence how security services are delivered — not just respond to alerts all day — this is well worth a conversation.
✨ Why this role stands out:
- Genuine influence over how security services are delivered
- Mix of hands-on engineering and governance across leading Microsoft and endpoint security tooling
- Senior role with real scope to mentor and shape service direction
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🎯 Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain customer security platforms (Microsoft Defender, Mimecast, Barracuda, CrowdStrike, Bitdefender, M365)
- Lead vulnerability management — identifying, prioritising and driving remediation of risks
- Monitor and coordinate incident response, working alongside third-party SOC partners where needed
- Conduct security and service delivery reviews, providing recommendations and improvement plans
- Support governance initiatives — policies, risk assessments, alignment with NIST/ISO 27001
- Optimise security tooling through alert tuning and policy refinement
- Develop documentation, processes and playbooks to improve service consistency
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Service Desk, Networking and Project teams
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🛠️ Skills/Must Have:
- Experience as a Security Operations Engineer, Cyber Security Engineer or similar
- Strong experience with Microsoft Defender and M365 security technologies
- Experience with email security (Mimecast/Barracuda) and EDR platforms (CrowdStrike, Bitdefender, Defender for Endpoint)
- Hands-on vulnerability management experience
- Knowledge of GRC principles and frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001)
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- MSP experience and mentoring experience both advantageous
🎁 Benefits:
- Opportunity to help build and shape a growing SecOps function
- Broad exposure to modern security technologies
- Hybrid working with flexibility
- Ongoing training and professional development
- Collaborative, supportive team
💰 Salary: £55,000 (flexibility for the right candidate)
📩 Interested? Get in touch to find out more or send your CV directly.
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