Company Description

Smartedge Solutions is a globally recognized technology firm established in 2005, headquartered in London with 15 offices across Europe. The company provides a full range of IT services and Professional Recruitment Services (PRS), with particular strength in the IT and Engineering domains. Smartedge leverages an extensive, authenticated network of over 100,000 consultants to deliver tailored, effective solutions. The organization is focused on transforming client performance and helping them gain a competitive edge through its SMART solutions. Team members join a collaborative, international environment with opportunities to work on diverse, high-impact projects.

Role: Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3)

• Work Location: Warrington or Leamington Spa
• Role Type: Permanent
• Mode of Working: Hybrid

Key responsibilities:

• Evaluate, onboard, and integrate security logs from cloud, infrastructure, application, and security technologies.
• Design and Implement log ingestion pipelines, parsing logic, normalization standards, enrichment processes, and data quality controls.
• Develop, tune, and optimize detection rules, correlation searches, alerting content, and threat detection use cases to improve detection fidelity and reduce false positives.
• Design and build automated playbooks, automated response workflows, and orchestration capabilities to streamline security operations.
• Develop integrations between SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, vulnerability management, ticketing systems, cloud platforms, and third-party security tools.
• Optimizing security tooling infrastructure, ensuring platform availability, scalability, performance, and operational resilience.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, and metrics to measure detection coverage, operational efficiency, platform health, and SOC performance.
• Support incident response, threat hunting, and security investigations through detection engineering, automation, and continuous service improvement.
• Lead AI and machine learning initiatives to improve alert triage, investigation workflows, threat detection, correlation, and response decision-making.
• Identify and implement AI-driven use cases that reduce manual SOC activities, accelerate investigations, enhance analyst productivity, and improve overall response effectiveness.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to deliver scalable and sustainable security monitoring solutions.