Cardiff, South Glamorgan, United Kingdom Hybrid / WFH Options
Anson Mccade
Scotland - United Kingdom Type: Permanent Senior SOC Engineer A leading organisation is seeking a Senior SOC Engineer to strengthen its security operations capability and drive continuous improvement across detection, response, and automation. This pivotal role requires deep expertise in IBM QRadar, with a strong focus on playbook development, analytical rule creation, and threat modelling. The Senior SOC Engineer will … play a key role in building and optimising detection and response strategies, ensuring robust protection against evolving threats. Key Responsibilities SIEM Engineering & Management Deploy, configure, and maintain the QRadar SIEM platform. Onboard and normalise log sources across on-premises and cloud environments. Develop and optimise analytical rules for threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavioural analysis. Playbook Development & Automation Design … and implement incidentresponse playbooks for scenarios such as phishing, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. Integrate playbooks with SOAR platforms (e.g., Microsoft Logic Apps, XSOAR) to streamline triage and automate response. Refine playbooks based on threat intelligence and incident insights. Threat Detection & Response Monitor and analyse security alerts and events to identify potential threats. Conduct investigations More ❯
level. Generation of Key Components across various platforms (including IBM, Tandem, Unix) together with management of Cryptographic infrastructure. SSH Key Management. Certificate management HSM configuration/installation/support Incident management Change management ITIL Ensure the integrity and availability of cryptographic and key management services to business functions and applications ? Key Accountabilities: Cryptographic Hardware Management - including on site local … core geographic locations globally. Management of Cryptographic infrastructure to include Out of Hours Support, production of monthly management information and risk statements. Adherence to Group IT Security Standards. Problem, Incident & Change Management including root cause identification. Procedure/process development. Project delivery. Cryptographic Hardware Management. Auditable Record Management. Excellent Risk and Control Maintenance Ensure governance and clear record keeping … creation and maintenance. Deep understanding of change disciplines including change and release management and track record of delivering change projects in a timely manner with high quality Strong in incidentresponse procedures and standards, strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex events to management. Experience of Sharepoint, Confluence and JIRA. Unix/Windows O/S skills More ❯
ll design scalable infrastructure, automate operations, and embed SRE principles to improve reliability and reduce toil. This is a highly influential role where you'll guide engineering standards, support incident management, and mentor others in building robust, cloud-native systems using modern DevOps practices. What You'll Bring: Strong experience supporting complex web applications and distributed systems, including Micro … DevOps, GitHub Actions) Solid grasp of cloud infrastructure (Azure or GCP), networking, and security best practices for web platforms Knowledge of SRE frameworks including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incidentresponse Familiarity with testing tools such as Playwright, Vitest, and Jest Understanding of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and DevSecOps is a plus Why You Should Apply: You'll More ❯