Senior Security Engineer - Incident Response

Client Server
Manchester, United Kingdom
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 115K

Job location

Remote
Manchester, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Python
Security Information and Event Management
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Kubernetes

Job description

Are you a tech savvy Senior Security Engineer with strong Incident Response experience?

You could be progressing your career in a senior, hands-on Senior Security Engineer role as part of a friendly and supportive international team at a growing and hugely successful European car insurance tech company as they expand their UK presence; their platform enables an insurance quote to be made to the consumer within 60 seconds, using just 4 clicks.

As a Senior Security Engineer you will be responsible for strengthening EDR / XDR and DLP configurations, defining new automatic detections of security events in the SIEM, improving automatic security alerts triage and Incident Response playbooks, defining the runbooks to be used during Incident Response and leading the execution of Table Top Exercises (TTX) with different actors and teams.

You'll take ownership and lead by example during investigations and responses to security alerts.

Requirements

  • You have strong, hands-on experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms, Crowdstrike (or similar EDR / XDR solutions) and MDM solutions
  • You have strong AWS and Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS experience
  • You have scripting skills with Python (or similar) for automation
  • Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GREM, GCIA or similar are preferred
  • You're collaborative and pragmatic, happy to work remotely with geographically dispersed teams

Benefits & conditions

As a Senior Security Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

  • Up to £115k salary
  • Remote working including flexible working hours
  • Workplace nursery scheme
  • Enhanced maternity package
  • 25 days holiday plus ability to buy or sell 5 days p/year + extra "duvet day"
  • Pension, Private Medical and Dental Insurance, Life Assurance, Employee Assistance Programme
  • Weekly Yoga and monthly Acupuncture sessions, Headspace membership
  • Diverse, inclusive team environment with a range of support networks
  • A range of other perks including Perkbox, cycle to work, season ticket loan

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