Security Operational Centre Engineer in Hemel Hempstead

At Sopra Steria, our Security Operations Centre (SOC) protects some of the UK’s most critical organisations. As a SOC Engineer, you’ll make sure the right monitoring and protective tooling is in place—so our analysts can detect, investigate and respond at pace. It’s a hands‑on role with real impact and plenty of scope to grow your cybersecurity career. This is meaningful work across high‑impact client environments in a culture that backs your growth—learn from specialists across engineering, architecture and operations.

Based on Site in Farnborough OR Hemel Hempstead. You do need to be eligible for SC Clearance.

What you will be doing:

• Install, configure and support security monitoring tools feeding into the SOC
• Ensure tooling is operating effectively to protect client environments.
• Work with teams to assess risks, design controls and define testing requirements.
• Support senior engineers with SIEM, threat intelligence and malware analysis platforms.
• Apply patches/updates, raise changes and follow agreed processes.
• Keep up to date with threats and recommend improvements.

What you will bring:

• Clear understanding of Information Security fundamentals
• Sentinel OR Splunk experience.
• Familiarity with security monitoring/protective technologies.
• Good project‑management skills; able to juggle multiple priorities.
• Analytical and systematic problem‑solving approach; able to absorb and apply technical information.
• Ability to plan work to objectives and influence peers and specialist teams.
• Able to manage competing tasks, meet deadlines and collaborate in a busy environment.
• CompTIA Network+ (or similar) or equivalent knowledge.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience with Azure or AWS security features.
• SIEM experience—especially Sentinel or Splunk.

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 Information

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Office based Hemel Hempstead OR Farnborough.
• Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance.
• Internal Recruiter: Jane
• Salary: £To be discussed

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Health Shields
• Life assurance
• Pension

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.