Senior Security Operational Centre Engineer in England

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be involved with the design, documentation, installation and management of security monitoring tools/platforms to provide data to the Sopra Steria Security Operational Centre (SOC) for analysis. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring that we have the correct tooling operating to ensure that we can provide protection and monitoring of our clients. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to assess risks, design controls, and define testing requirements. Your leadership and expertise will be critical in fostering a strong culture of technology expertise and security by design across Sopra Steria. You will play a lead role in helping our clients understand their security challenges and then specify, plan and implement controls to improve their security posture.

This is a superb opportunity to continue developing your hands‑on experience in the field of cybersecurity while contributing to the overall security posture of the organisation.

What you will be doing:

• Lead on security activities for large client engagements through creating and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships (customer and internal), developing a solution that aligns with overall objectives and contractual obligations.
• Identify and understand customer requirements and demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer.
• Identify and design solutions that understand customer requirements and apply industry best practice in solutions for the benefit of the customer.
• Collaborate with other team members to identify potential cyber risks, assess their impact and develop technical mitigation strategies.
• Working with Security Architecture to inform focused security solution design for SOC/SIEM solutions.
• Formulate security strategy, creatively applying a wide range of technical and/or management principles.
• Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and industry standard methodologies, and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Lead security aspects of bid responses and opportunity identification.
• Demonstrate awareness of the latest cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and industry standard methodologies.
• Enable the development and growth of the Cyber Security team through mentoring of junior team members, supporting recruitment activities and encouraging engagement with the Cyber Security Community of Expertise.

What you will bring:

• Successful track record leading teams within Security Engineering coupled with experience of leading large client engagements.
• Strong client management and relationship building experience.
• Ability to absorb complex information and communicate effectively at all levels to both technical and non‑technical audiences, assess and evaluate risk and understand the implications of new technologies.
• Good project management skills, with the ability to balance multiple initiatives and priorities simultaneously.
• SIEM experience with Azure Sentinel and/or Splunk.
• Experience of running simulated or reacting to actual incidents, following procedures and good practice to limit, reduce and remediate.
• Strong leadership, influencing and people management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills coupled with ability to assess complex situations, identify risks, and recommend effective solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels from Executives to end users.
• Demonstrate significant personal responsibility or autonomy, with little need for escalation.

It would be great if you had:

• Cloud, on-prem, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS environments.
• Security incident response, code/malware analysis.
• Strong coding skills.

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Hertfordshire

Security Clearance Level: willingness to go through SC

Salary: Up to £75,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy extra days, £5,400 car allowance, Medical Insurance, life assurance, and 6% pension.

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. 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.