Consulting SOC Platform Engineer - Public Sector Professional Hursley, GB

At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors. You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high-profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth. We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in-demand skills development, and long-term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.

We offer:

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities:

As a SOC Platform Engineer specialising in Security Platform Engineering, you will support the design, build, and integration of infrastructure and platforms that underpin modern Security Operations Centres (SOCs) across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments. You will work across cloud, infrastructure, and security tooling, contributing to the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing monitoring platforms. This includes supporting the deployment and integration of technologies such as Google SecOps (Chronicle), SIEM platforms, cloud-native security tooling, and network security solutions.

Using your experience across cloud or infrastructure engineering with security exposure, you will help ensure platforms are reliable, integrated, and operationally effective, enabling detection and response teams to perform at scale. This is a hands-on role suited to engineers who enjoy building and integrating systems, with exposure to client environments and the opportunity to develop further into more senior consulting and architecture responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design, build, and maintenance of security monitoring platforms across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments.
• Assist with the deployment and integration of SIEM and cloud-native security platforms, including Google SecOps / Chronicle and similar technologies.
• Build and maintain log ingestion pipelines, ensuring reliable data flow across multiple systems.
• Support integration of security tooling across environments, including EDR/XDR platforms, network security technologies (e.g. firewalls such as Palo Alto), and identity and access management systems.
• Configure and maintain data collection, parsing, and normalisation pipelines.
• Work closely with SOC analysts and detection engineers to support operational use cases.
• Contribute to automation of platform deployment and configuration using scripting or infrastructure-as-code.
• Monitor and support platform performance and health, including ingestion pipelines and system availability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and integration issues with support from senior engineers where required.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation (runbooks, designs, configurations).
• Support workshops and stakeholder interactions, with guidance from senior team members.

Education and experience:

Required education: None

Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise:

• Strong background in infrastructure or cloud engineering, with experience working with SIEM or security monitoring platforms (not necessarily as a primary role), such as Google SecOps / Chronicle, Sentinel, QRadar, Splunk, Elastic or similar.
• Experience supporting or building log ingestion pipelines or data integrations.
• Exposure to integrating systems across security tooling (EDR, network, identity).
• Basic understanding of SOC environments and security operations workflows.
• Experience contributing to technical delivery, including implementation and configuration.
• Proficiency in scripting or automation (e.g. Python, PowerShell).
• Ability to work in client-facing environments and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Experience with modern SIEM or cloud-native security platforms.
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform).
• Experience working with security tooling integrations (EDR, SOAR, threat intelligence platforms).
• Understanding of cloud-native security services across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Relevant certifications such as SC-200, AZ-500, or cloud certifications.
• Experience working in regulated or public sector environments.
• Awareness of secure-by-design principles and modern security architectures.

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market-leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment every day, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law.