Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Our local authority client based in East London are urgently seeking an experienced .Senior Cyber Security Engineer. 500 a day Umbrella Business Justification With the strategic deployment of an outsourced Security Operations Center (SOC) from NCC Group that leverages Splunk and CrowdStrike, the Senior Cyber Security Engineer role is a key addition to our team to maximise the timeline and investment. With a team member leaving the cyber team and LBH in February, this position is necessary to get the best out of the SOC partnership with NCC Group by providing the senior-level technical expertise to manage, integrate, optimize the capabilities of our outsourced SOC and train the existing team. We will also look for additional technical skill sets in this role such as experience with Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing and Policy/Standards Creation. Position Summary Contract Senior Cybersecurity Engineer. The ideal candidate will be a technical expert in CrowdStrike for endpoint protection and Splunk for security telemetry, capable of turning raw data into actionable intelligence. Key Responsibilities Endpoint Strategy: Lead the deployment, policy configuration, and maintenance of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform. SIEM Mastery: Work with our SOC partner to architect and optimize Splunk dashboards, alerts, and data models to identify sophisticated threats. Incident Response: Serve as a technical escalation point for high-priority security incidents, utilizing ..... full job details .....