Senior Detection Engineer (Consultancy)

Senior Detection Engineer (Consultancy) - Remote (Southern England) Location: Home-based across the South - client site roughly once a fortnight Salary: £70,000 + £5,000 car allowance + £15,000 bonus (£90,000 total package) Detection engineering, done properly This isn''t a deployment role and it isn''t a monitoring role. You''ll spend your time on the thing most detection engineers never get enough of: designing, writing and tuning the detection logic itself. You''ll work across customer environments as part of an established Professional Services team, alongside the SOC Engineering function. Because this is a managed security service provider, you''ll see more estates, more log sources and more genuinely different problems in a year than most in-house roles offer in five. The split is roughly 80/20 - the large majority of your week is hands-on detection and automation work, with the remainder client-facing: workshops, coverage assessments and walking customers through what you''ve built. Home-based, with client site visits roughly every couple of weeks. No on-call rota. No clearance requirement. What you''ll be doing Designing and building detection rulesets across SIEM and XDR platforms Writing and tuning detection logic in KQL, cutting false positives without losing coverage Mapping customer log sources against use cases to identify and close coverage gaps Designing use cases aligned to MITRE ATTandCK Building SOAR automations and automated response workflows Writing ..... full job details .....