Security Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Specialist Computer Centres PLC
£500 Per day
Inside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Security Engineer involves supporting a key security operations program focused on Google SecOps. The position is ideal for an experienced professional who excels in data-driven environments and is skilled in enhancing security use cases, tuning alerts, and improving reporting. This is a home-based contract for a duration of 7 months, offering a competitive daily rate. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in optimizing security operations and ensuring effective data management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform ongoing use case analysis, tuning, and false-positive reduction.
- Lead onboarding of data sources into Google SecOps following a structured onboarding methodology.
- Provide input for use case development and help agree priorities for the use case development pipeline and backlog.
- Create dashboards and reports to support visibility and decision-making.
- Administer BindPlane Agents and the associated service.
- Maintain account access to Google SecOps for supplier personnel.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience working as a Security Engineer within SOC or SecOps environments.
- Hands-on experience with Google SecOps (or similar SIEM/SOAR technologies).
- Proven ability to analyse and tune security use cases to improve detection quality.
- Experience onboarding complex data sources into security platforms.
- Familiarity with BindPlane Agents or equivalent data ingestion tooling.
- Ability to create dashboards, reports, and operational insights within security platforms.
Salary (Rate): £500 per day
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Security Engineer - £500/day via Umbrella - 7-Month Contract - Home-Based - SCC Flex Contract
We're looking for an experienced Security Engineer to support a key security operations programme focused on Google SecOps. This is an excellent opportunity for a Security Engineer who thrives in data-driven environments and enjoys enhancing security use cases, tuning alerts, and improving dashboards and reporting.
Your responsibilities as the Security Engineer:
- Perform ongoing use case analysis, tuning, and false-positive reduction.
- Lead onboarding of data sources into Google SecOps following a structured onboarding methodology.
- Provide input for use case development and help agree priorities for the use case development pipeline and backlog.
- Create dashboards and reports to support visibility and decision-making.
- Administer BindPlane Agents and the associated service.
- Maintain account access to Google SecOps for supplier personnel.
As a successful Security Engineer, you will have:
- Strong experience working as a Security Engineer within SOC or SecOps environments.
- Hands-on experience with Google SecOps (or similar SIEM/SOAR technologies).
- Proven ability to analyse and tune security use cases to improve detection quality.
- Experience onboarding complex data sources into security platforms.
- Familiarity with BindPlane Agents or equivalent data ingestion tooling.
- Ability to create dashboards, reports, and operational insights within security platforms.
If you're a Security Engineer looking for a home-based contract where you can make a real impact on modern security operations, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today - professional references required.
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