Senior SOC Engineer

Senior SOC Engineer - Remote Location: Home-based - two days a month in the office (SE location) all travel paid Salary: Up to £70,000 Type: Permanent, full time Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm - no shifts, no on-call This is a genuinely home-based role. Two days a month on site in Basingstoke, with travel and expenses covered in full. The role This is a build role, not a monitoring one. You''ll be the engineer behind the SOC - designing and running the Microsoft security platform the analysts depend on. If you''ve spent time in a SOC wishing you could fix the tooling rather than work around it, this is that job. You''ll join an established Security Operations team as new headcount, reporting to the Lead SOC Engineer. This is a managed security service provider, so you''ll see a far wider range of customer environments and problems than any single in-house SOC would give you - and you''ll lead the engineering side of onboarding new customers onto the platform. What you''ll be doing Designing and maintaining the SIEM and XDR platform - data ingestion, log parsing and normalisation, retention, performance Writing and tuning detections in KQL, and building automation to cut manual analyst effort Scripting custom connectors and integrations across the security toolset Leading the technical onboarding of new customers alongside SOC Operations Acting as senior escalation for complex engineering issues Supporting and mentoring engineers and analysts across the team What ..... full job details .....