SIEM Application Engineer (Elastic Security) - Manchester, UK

Overview

Role : SIEM Application Engineer

Type : Contract (3 Months)

Location : Birmingham / Manchester, UK (Hybrid 3 days a week)

Payrate : £450 – £550 per day INSIDE IR35 Umbrella

Responsibilities

• Elastic Stack Mastery: 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience, specializing in the end-to-end delivery, optimization, and operation of the Elastic Stack (ELK), with a focus on Elastic Security.
• Detection & Compliance Expert: Proven ability to engineer high-fidelity detection rules based on the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, alongside implementing essential security controls like RBAC, encryption, and data governance to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Performance & Tuning Specialist: Deep technical skill in fine-tuning Elasticsearch indices and mappings and optimizing Logstash pipelines for maximum performance, throughput, and efficient resource utilization.
• Outcome Ownership: Results-driven professional focused on owning security outcomes, leveraging Kibana for critical data visualization, real-time monitoring, and system health tracking.