Up to £75,000 PA
Well-established and highly profitable construction engineering business is seeking an experienced SecOps Engineer to join them on a permanent basis. This is a critical leadership role within an organisation undergoing significant digital transformation, with ambitious growth and acquisition plans driving demand for scalable, standardised and efficient business applications.
This role is ideal for a proactive security professional with strong technical expertise across application, network and infrastructure security. You will play a key part in implementing security controls, mitigating risk and contributing to the continuous improvement of the company’s overall security posture.
Responsibilities
- Monitor security tools including SIEM (QRadar) and respond to threat detection alerts
- Triage, analyse and prioritise security (via ServiceNow)
- Investigate root causes of security issues and design effective remediation solutions
- Oversee Patch Management
- Conduct vulnerability scans with Qualys, analyse results and prioritise remediation
- Document SecOps processes and create knowledge base articles in line with best practices
- Automate security tasks and toolchains using scripting (PowerShell, Batch, etc.)
- Collaborate with external SOC teams
- Prepare post-incident reports and root cause analyses
- Manage end-user device (EUD) security via MS Intune, Sophos and NinjaOne
- Schedule and assess vulnerability scans on critical infrastructure
- Maintain patching compliance for OS, Microsoft Office and third-party applications
- Support infrastructure teams to deploy systems, enhance security policies and manage security-driven changes
- Produce weekly security operations reports
- Manage Cisco Umbrella web filtering and SSL inspection policies
Requirements
- Previous hands‑on experience in SecOps or Incident Response
- Recognised Security certifications such as Security+, CEH, or Microsoft security certifications
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows OS security and hardening
- Working PowerShell scripting ability for automation tasks
- Solid understanding of cloud‑native security across M365, Azure and AWS
- Experience with enterprise IT infrastructure
Any experience with the following will be beneficial
- Strong experience with Qualys
- Exposure to Varonis
- Network security knowledge or relevant certifications (TCP/IP, VPNs, routing, segmentation)
- Experience working with ServiceNow
Initially 4 days per week onsite, dropping to 3 once passed probation.
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Well-established and highly profitable construction engineering business is seeking an experienced SecOps Engineer to join them on a permanent basis. This is a critical leadership role within an organisation undergoing significant digital transformation, with ambitious growth and acquisition plans driving demand for scalable, standardised and efficient business applications.
This role is ideal for a proactive security professional with strong technical expertise across application, network and infrastructure security. You will play a key part in implementing security controls, mitigating risk and contributing to the continuous improvement of the company’s overall security posture.
Responsibilities
- Monitor security tools including SIEM (QRadar) and respond to threat detection alerts
- Triage, analyse and prioritise security (via ServiceNow)
- Investigate root causes of security issues and design effective remediation solutions
- Oversee Patch Management
- Conduct vulnerability scans with Qualys, analyse results and prioritise remediation
- Document SecOps processes and create knowledge base articles in line with best practices
- Automate security tasks and toolchains using scripting (PowerShell, Batch, etc.)
- Collaborate with external SOC teams
- Prepare post-incident reports and root cause analyses
- Manage end-user device (EUD) security via MS Intune, Sophos and NinjaOne
- Schedule and assess vulnerability scans on critical infrastructure
- Maintain patching compliance for OS, Microsoft Office and third-party applications
- Support infrastructure teams to deploy systems, enhance security policies and manage security-driven changes
- Produce weekly security operations reports
- Manage Cisco Umbrella web filtering and SSL inspection policies
Requirements
- Previous hands‑on experience in SecOps or Incident Response
- Recognised Security certifications such as Security+, CEH, or Microsoft security certifications
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Windows OS security and hardening
- Working PowerShell scripting ability for automation tasks
- Solid understanding of cloud‑native security across M365, Azure and AWS
- Experience with enterprise IT infrastructure
Any experience with the following will be beneficial
- Strong experience with Qualys
- Exposure to Varonis
- Network security knowledge or relevant certifications (TCP/IP, VPNs, routing, segmentation)
- Experience working with ServiceNow
Initially 4 days per week onsite, dropping to 3 once passed probation.
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