Senior Security Engineering Consultant

Overview

In this hands-on, senior role, you will strengthen customers’ Security Operations by designing and automating detections across SIEM and XDR, and implementing SOAR-driven responses. You will work as a trusted technical consultant to improve detection coverage, align use cases to MITRE ATT&CK, and guide customers through workshops and best practices. You’ll shape detection content and playbooks, collaborating with onboarding and engineering teams to ensure practical delivery. This role offers real-world threat exposure and the chance to influence SOC maturity and detection workflows.

Pay / Benefits

• Salary up to 80,000
• Performance-based bonuses
• Industry-leading benefits
• Collaborative engineering environment
• Exposure to real-world threats and modern detection approaches
• Opportunity to shape Security Operations capabilities

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver detection rulesets across SIEM and XDR platforms
• Develop and tune detection logic using KQL or equivalent languages
• Design detection use cases aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and real-world techniques
• Map customer log sources to detection use cases to assess coverage
• Design and implement SOAR automations, integrations and response workflows
• Develop and document incident response playbooks aligned to detection outputs
• Translate threat intelligence and operational learnings into improved detections and automations
• Deliver detection as code pipelines with versioning
• Produce technical and customer-facing deliverables like use case catalogues and coverage assessments
• Work directly with customers as a trusted technical consultant
• Lead workshops on detection engineering, use case design and SOC maturity
• Guide customers on improving detection coverage and aligning to MITRE ATT&CK
• Explain detection strategies, gaps and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with platform onboarding and engineering teams for smooth integration of detections and automations
• Support SOC teams to ensure outputs are practical and aligned to workflows
• Contribute to evolution of detection use cases, playbooks and automation patterns
• Support development of reusable detection content and delivery standards
• Contribute to lab work, testing and validation of detection approaches
• Identify telemetry gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen detection outcomes

Key requirements

• Hands-on SIEM engineering experience with detection rule development and tuning (Microsoft Sentinel preferred)
• Experience writing detection logic using KQL or similar
• Proven design and implementation of SOAR automations and playbooks (Logic Apps, Cortex XSOAR or similar)
• Scripting/automation using Python or PowerShell including API work
• Experience designing detection use cases aligned to MITRE ATT&CK
• Strong understanding of detection coverage and log source mapping to attack lifecycle
• Experience with XDR/EDR platforms (Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, Cortex)
• Azure/cloud telemetry understanding
• Customer-facing or consultancy experience
• Strong communication skills to explain technical concepts clearly
• Technical competencies in SIEM/XDR platforms and automation tooling
• Threat intelligence integration and enrichment experience
• Awareness of emerging security tooling including AI-driven threats

• Clear communication
• Consultancy mindset
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Microsoft Sentinel
• KQL
• SOAR platforms (Logic Apps, Cortex XSOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR)

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