Technical SIEM Engineer

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Sopra Steria
Are you an expert Engineer who has been involved designing and implementing a SIEM solution based on a set of customer requirements? Are you eager for something new and want to join our experienced team on a transformation journey?

Join our well-established Cyber Security Operations team within Aerospace, Defense and Security. The role will include both helping to support the SOC’s technology stack and onboarding new customers. This is a unique opportunity to work with a range of clients, be involved in designing security platforms AND look at new ways of securing environments.

We can offer phenomenal career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, great employment benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, flexible working, and good training and development opportunities.

Hybrid Fixed: This role will be based in our Hemel Hempstead site 3 days a week.

What you will be doing:

• Maintaining the health of the SOC’s technology stack
• Design and implement a SIEM based on a set of customer requirements
• Crafting and delivering solutions to onboard customers into the Managed SOC
• Provide engineering support to analysts
• Aid in the support the development of detection rules
• Involved in the design of Security platforms
• Deployment and Maintenance of Splunk and Sentinel

What you’ll bring:

• Well-rounded cloud knowledge
• Engineering experience with Splunk and Sentinel
• Experience in writing detailed design documentation
• Writing and maintaining scripts e.g. Bash, Python or PowerShell
• Experience in deploying Windows & Linux servers in a enterprise environment
• Experience of problem solving within the security engineering space
• The ability to manage your time and priorities within a fast paced environment

It would be great if you have:

• Deploying solutions into Cloud (especially where Infrastructure as Code is used)
• SIEM detection-rule writing
• Use of log filtering and forwarding technology (such as Splunk forwarders, Logstash, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, etc.)

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: Hemel Hempstead 3 days per week and 2 days home based
Security Clearance Level: Must be eligible for Security Clearance
Internal Recruiter: Jane
Salary: £55,000 to £65,000
Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK’s largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.