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# Senior Security Engineer

- **Company:** Searchability
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £85,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Key Management, Load Testing, Routing, Network Segmentation, Zero Trust Network Access, Security Information and Event Management, Data Ingestion, Mitre Att&ck, Splunk, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-security-engineer/57465859

## About the Role

* Hands-on cloud security experience across AWS, Azure or GCP
 * Strong experience with either Splunk SPL, YARA and EDR detection engineering, or security data pipelines including Cribl, Kinesis, S3 and Amazon Security Lake
 * Understanding of Zero Trust, identity-first security, secrets management and network segmentation
 * Ability to communicate technical security risk to non-technical stakeholders
 * Experience working with, or alongside, UK Government or public sector organisations Job Description, * Splunk
 * SIEM
 * AWS
 * Senior Security Engineer
 * YARA
 * MITRE ATT&CK
 * Cribl
 * Detection Engineering

## Description

You will take ownership of monitoring and detection capabilities across complex environments, building and tuning detection logic while improving the pipelines that feed security operations.

Responsibilities will include:

 * Building and tuning detection rules across Splunk SPL, YARA and EDR platforms
 * Mapping detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK
 * Reducing false positives and improving detection quality
 * Testing detection rules through replay, load testing and red-team scenarios
 * Working closely with SOC analysts to improve operational detection capability
 * Managing log ingestion, routing, filtering, normalisation and enrichment using Cribl
 * Supporting cloud security data across technologies such as Kinesis, S3 and Amazon Security Lake Job Description Job Description