SOC Engineer - Cyber
Location: Birmingham (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 + Excellent Benefits
Contract Type: Permanent
The Role – SOC Engineer - Cyber
We’re looking for a hands-on SOC Engineer to join a rapidly growing Cyber Security function within a large enterprise technology environment. This is an opportunity to work in one of the most modern and well-equipped SOC environments in the market, supporting enterprise customers across a broad range of managed security services and cloud technologies.
This is a genuinely engineering-led role rather than a traditional SOC analyst position. You’ll be heavily involved in infrastructure, cloud security, security tooling, automation, and operational cyber engineering across enterprise-scale environments.
Working from a Birmingham-based SOC three days a week, you’ll play a key role in supporting customer environments, improving cyber capabilities, and helping showcase a cutting-edge SOC environment to visiting customers and stakeholders.
What’s in it for you as our Cyber SOC Engineer?
As a Cyber SOC Engineer, you will:
We’re looking for a technically capable and proactive engineer who enjoys solving problems, learning new technologies, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
This role would suit someone from a SOC Engineering, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, or Cyber Engineering background who enjoys hands-on technical work rather than purely monitoring or analyst-based responsibilities.
You’ll ideally have experience with:
Please note: Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC/BPSS), including having the right to work in the UK and meeting residency requirements.
INDHS
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 + Excellent Benefits
Contract Type: Permanent
The Role – SOC Engineer - Cyber
We’re looking for a hands-on SOC Engineer to join a rapidly growing Cyber Security function within a large enterprise technology environment. This is an opportunity to work in one of the most modern and well-equipped SOC environments in the market, supporting enterprise customers across a broad range of managed security services and cloud technologies.
This is a genuinely engineering-led role rather than a traditional SOC analyst position. You’ll be heavily involved in infrastructure, cloud security, security tooling, automation, and operational cyber engineering across enterprise-scale environments.
Working from a Birmingham-based SOC three days a week, you’ll play a key role in supporting customer environments, improving cyber capabilities, and helping showcase a cutting-edge SOC environment to visiting customers and stakeholders.
What’s in it for you as our Cyber SOC Engineer?
- Salary of £45,000 - £50,000
- Hybrid working environment
- Excellent company benefits package
- Flexible benefits scheme
- Access to industry-leading SOC technology and tooling
- Dedicated training and development time each week
- Fully funded learning opportunities and partner-led certifications
- Opportunities to attend conferences and industry events
- Career progression within a large enterprise technology organisation
- Exposure to enterprise-scale cloud and cyber environments
- Supportive, collaborative, and highly technical team environment
As a Cyber SOC Engineer, you will:
- Act as a technical escalation point and engineering SME across SOC technologies including SIEM, MDR/XDR, EDR, vulnerability management, and cloud security tooling
- Support, maintain, and improve cyber security infrastructure across enterprise customer environments
- Work closely with internal teams and customers to onboard, configure, and optimise security technologies and services
- Investigate and resolve platform issues, security alerts, log source health problems, and tooling-related incidents
- Configure and support technologies such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Tenable, and related security platforms
- Assist with vulnerability scanning, remediation support, and operational security improvements
- Contribute to automation and scripting initiatives using tools such as KQL, PowerShell, Python, or Bash
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and security playbooks
- Support governance and compliance activities aligned to standards such as ISO27001, GDPR, and NCSC guidance
- Work collaboratively across infrastructure, cloud, networking, and cyber teams to improve service delivery and operational resilience
- Stay up to date with emerging cyber threats, technologies, and security best practice
- Contribute to continual improvement initiatives across the SOC function
We’re looking for a technically capable and proactive engineer who enjoys solving problems, learning new technologies, and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
This role would suit someone from a SOC Engineering, Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, or Cyber Engineering background who enjoys hands-on technical work rather than purely monitoring or analyst-based responsibilities.
You’ll ideally have experience with:
- Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender
- EDR/XDR/MDR technologies
- Vulnerability management tools such as Tenable or Qualys
- Azure, Microsoft 365, Intune, or AWS environments
- Security tooling, infrastructure, and cloud platforms
- Linux and Windows operating systems
- SIEM technologies and security monitoring
- Basic scripting or automation using KQL, PowerShell, Python, or Bash
- ITIL environments and structured change control processes
- Firewall, endpoint, or cloud security technologies
- Strong communicators who can work confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Organised, collaborative, and eager to learn
- Comfortable working in a customer-facing environment
- Self-driven and proactive in solving problems
- Able to take ownership while also working well within a team
- Interested in developing their cyber engineering and cloud security expertise further
Please note: Candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC/BPSS), including having the right to work in the UK and meeting residency requirements.
INDHS