Security Engineering Consultant (Detection Engineering / Microsoft Sentinel)

Senior Security Engineering Consultant (Detection Engineering / Microsoft Sentinel) Remote 80% £80,000 + performance bonus About the role Our client, a well-established cybersecurity services provider, is growing its UK Professional Services team and needs a Senior Security Engineering Consultant to lead detection engineering and automation for its customers. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role. You''ll design and deliver detection and response capabilities across SIEM, XDR and SOAR platforms, working alongside a dedicated SOC engineering team. You''ll also own a "detection as code" approach, so detections and automations are built consistently and at scale. What you''ll do Build and tune detection rulesets in KQL (or equivalent) across SIEM and XDR platforms Design use cases aligned to MITRE ATTandCK and assess coverage against customer log sources Develop SOAR automations, integrations and incident response playbooks Deliver detection as code pipelines with structured versioning Lead customer workshops on detection strategy and SOC maturity Produce clear deliverables such as detection strategies, use case catalogues and coverage assessments What you''ll bring Strong SIEM engineering experience, ideally Microsoft Sentinel Proven KQL detection writing SOAR experience (Logic Apps, Cortex XSOAR or similar) Python or PowerShell scripting, including API integration XDR/EDR experience (Defender, CrowdStrike, Cortex or similar) Azure security telemetry knowledge ..... full job details .....