Nomios UK&I
Senior SOC Engineer
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Nomios' Mission
Nomios' mission is to build a ‘secure and connected’ future. Organisations across Europe depend on us to help secure and connect their digital infrastructures.
In Support of Our Continued UK Growth
We are seeking a Senior SOC Engineer to join our Security Operations team. This role presents a great opportunity to shape the direction of a modern, technology focused SOC that values engineering excellence, deep technical capability, and a culture of innovation. You will work with a broad and diverse customer base that relies on Nomios to deliver meaningful and effective security outcomes.
Your Role as Senior SOC Engineer
As a Senior SOC Engineer at Nomios, you'll lead the design, deployment, and ongoing improvement of the technologies that underpin our SOC, including SIEM, XDR, SOAR, scripting, and automation. From building custom log parsers and response workflows to developing platform architecture, you’ll drive meaningful enhancements to our detection and response capabilities.
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Build
- Mentor and guide SOC engineers and analysts, supporting their technical development and helping them grow within a high-performance team.
- Design, develop, and maintain automation across key SOC workflows, improving efficiency, response speed, and consistency.
- Create and manage log parsing and data normalisation across a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring high-quality telemetry across the estate.
- Architect and implement SIEM and XDR environments tailored to both internal use and customer-facing deployments.
- Deploy, manage, and continually enhance core SOC technologies, including SIEM, XDR, SOAR, vulnerability management, and custom automation scripts, all supported by our dedicated in-house infrastructure and lab environments.
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Investigate
- Act as a senior escalation point during complex engineering incidents across both internal systems and managed customer environments.
- Work with the wider engineering team to document, maintain, and improve internal wikis and deployment guides, ensuring consistent and high-quality engineering delivery across the team.
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- Improve
- Reporting to the Lead SOC Engineer, collaborate with the Head of Security Operations on the ongoing development and execution of the SOC’s engineering maturity roadmap.
- Continuously assess and deliver automation and process improvements, both internally and across customer environments, to enhance detection, response, and operational efficiency.
- Apply lessons learned from incidents, threat intelligence, and emerging attack techniques to refine and improve engineering output, ensuring the SOC remains agile, proactive, and threat-driven.
Key Responsibilities
We hire result-orientated, smart, and high-energy individuals who bring a can-do attitude and a willingness to go the extra mile and deliver exceptional outcomes. You should be organised and rigorous, with excellent analytical skills. Good communication with customers and internal stakeholders is vital, as is the ability to work as part of a dynamic team.
Required Technical Skills
- Expert Knowledge of SOAR – including developing custom automation and integrations. Preferred vendors: Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Logic Apps, Siemplify, Jupyter Notebooks.
- Good Knowledge of Cloud Environments & Architecture – including developing custom automation and integrations via API with proficiency in at least one scripting language (preferably Python or GO). Preferred vendors: Azure, AWS, GCP.
- Expert Knowledge of SIEM Architecture and Design – Including familiarity in SIEM deployment and architecture of at least one cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure, IBM). Preferred vendors: Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, XSIAM.
- Expert Knowledge of EDR/XDR – including configuration and deployment/maintenance. Preferred vendors: CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto XDR, SentinelOne.
- Intermediate Knowledge of VM – including deployment, automation of reporting. Preferred vendors: Rapid 7, Tennable.
- Intermediate Knowledge of CTI – including ingestion methodologies, and common ingestion and parsing methods (STIX/TAXII). Preferred vendors: Mandiant.
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Additional Requirements
- 3-5 years’ experience working within a Security Operations Centre (SOC) as a security engineer.
- Proven experience in SOC automation, log source parsing, and configuration of security toolsets.
- Fluent in English with excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Eligible for SC or DV clearance is required.
- Ability to use initiative and work independently.
- Strong team player.
Job Specifics
- Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring attendance at our Basingstoke office (free hot & cold drinks, breakfast items, snacks, lunches, and regular takeaway Fridays are provided to all staff in the office!)
- Hours: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:30pm
Why Would You Choose to Come and Work with Us?
We invest in our people. You will get to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you are free to use your initiative in support of our strategic objectives. You will work alongside high calibre sales, technical, and operational experts as part of a supportive, tight-knit team, within which every individual has an important part to play and makes a real difference. Nomios offers a highly competitive salary and commission scheme along with industry-leading benefits.
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Nomios is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating and sustaining an environment in which everyone is provided with an equal opportunity to grow and develop, and no individual will be unjustly discriminated against. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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