Security Engineer - SC Cleared
- Farnborough, Hampshire
- £75,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location: Farnborough / Hybrid | Clearance: DV or SC Cleared | Salary: £82k + benefitsAre you ready to apply your security expertise to projects that really matter? Join a fast-growing digital consultancy delivering some of the UK's most innovative work across Defence and National Security. With long-term programmes already in place, you'll have the chance to work at the forefront of security monitoring and engineering for critical systems.A Security Engineer is required to support high-impact programmes in secure environments. Working closely with the lead Security Architect, you'll play a key role in deploying and configuring modern security tooling across complex platforms. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys hands-on engineering, improving SOC effectiveness, and shaping threat detection capabilities at scale.What you'll be doing
- Deploying and configuring security tools including SIEM, vulnerability scanning and endpoint monitoring
- Developing use cases, alerts, and dashboards to support active threat detection
- Writing and maintaining SOC playbooks and triage workflows
- Performing 2nd line security monitoring, incident triage and investigation
- Supporting security assurance activities and documentation across the programme lifecycle
- Working with cross-functional teams in a high-assurance, cloud-native environment
- Strong experience configuring and optimising SIEM tooling (e.g. Splunk, Elastic)
- Proven ability to create use cases, alerts, and visualisations for SOC effectiveness
- Hands-on experience writing playbooks and operational processes for security events
- A current DV (Developed Vetting) or Security Clearance (SC)
- Willingness to be on site in Farnborough 2 days per week
- Familiarity with MOD policy (e.g. JSP 440, JSP 604) and assurance practices
- Experience with CI/CD tools, Kubernetes and modern DevSecOps approaches
- Knowledge of Tenable/Nessus, vulnerability management and SOC operations
- Exposure to working within a defence, security or mission-critical environment