Sopra Steria
Senior Security Operational Centre Engineer
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Shape the Future of SOC Engineering.
Are you passionate about automation, AI, cloud technologies, and building smarter ways of working? We're looking for a Senior SOC Engineer to join our growing Aerospace, Defence & Security business, helping to transform how a modern Security Operations Centre operates. You'll play a pivotal role in driving automation, improving engineering standards, and introducing AI-assisted engineering practices across a high-performing SOC environment.
This is a unique opportunity to become a key member within the Detection Engineering team, helping to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and deliver scalable, repeatable solutions that strengthen cyber defence capabilities.
As a Senior SOC Engineer, you'll work across automation, DevOps, data, reporting, and cloud technologies to improve operational efficiency and engineering maturity.
Hybrid: Farnborough 3 days per week, 2 days home-based.
SC Cleared or eligible.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Design and develop automation solutions, scripts, and engineering workflows.
- Drive AI-assisted engineering practices and help shape responsible AI adoption.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows.
- Develop dashboards, reporting solutions, and operational insights using Power BI and other tooling.
- Work with Azure services to create scalable and reliable engineering solutions.
- Improve data quality, transformation processes, and reporting accuracy.
- Support the evolution of engineering standards, governance, and best practice.
- Collaborate with security, service, and operational teams to identify and deliver improvements.
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What you will bring:
- Strong experience within engineering, automation, DevOps, reporting, or operational improvement roles.
- Scripting and development expertise using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience building automation workflows and repeatable technical processes.
- Azure DevOps experience including repositories, pipelines, version control, and release processes.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git, and software engineering best practices.
- Experience creating dashboards and visualisations using Power BI, Excel, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with APIs, data integrations, and structured data sources.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud-based engineering principles.
This role offers the opportunity to influence the future direction of SOC engineering by combining cutting-edge automation, AI-assisted practices, and cloud technologies within a national security-focused environment.
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You'll work alongside highly skilled cyber professionals, tackle complex technical challenges, and help build innovative solutions that make a real operational impact.
If you're excited by automation, engineering excellence, and the future of AI-enabled cyber operations, we'd love to hear from you.
Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance
Referral Bonus: £1000.00
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Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops, and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.
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