2 of 2 Contract Threat Detection Jobs in the South East

Cyber Security Engineer (2nd line/3rd line)

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
Up to £280.0 per day + £280 Per Day Inside IR35
defensive activities, monitor and analyse alerts, respond to incidents and ensure the organisation's security posture remains robust, proactive and threat-ready. You'll work closely with an outsourced 24/7 SOC, validating the quality of their service and acting swiftly on escalations. You'll maintain, optimise … enhance a broad suite of security tools, including EDR, SIEM, email security, cloud security platforms, vulnerability management tooling and threat-detection technologies, ensuring they are configured to best practice and delivering maximum protection. You'll conduct vulnerability scanning, oversee patching cycles, perform cloud security assessments, refine playbooks, support ...

Security Engineer - SIEM, KQL

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£350 - £400 per day
site** Key Responsibilities SIEM Management & Optimization: Design, implement, and maintain Microsoft Sentinel workspaces, connectors, analytics rules, and playbooks Develop advanced KQL queries for threat hunting and reporting Optimize SIEM performance, cost, and data retention policies Troubleshoot log ingestion and parsing issues Log Source Integration: Onboard and configure critical … sources (AD, firewalls, servers, cloud infrastructure) Manage event collection and forwarding infrastructure Implement data filtering and custom log parsing Threat Detection & Use Case Development: Develop and refine detection rules based on threat intelligence and attack patterns Continuously improve detection efficacy and reduce false positives Security ...