Security Engineer (Microsoft Sentinel) - Contract
Posted 3 days ago by Nagarro
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Security Engineer at Nagarro involves engineering and optimizing Microsoft Sentinel within a high-performing cyber team. This position focuses on detection engineering, platform optimization, and automation, rather than governance or GRC. The engineer will work with the Microsoft Defender suite and drive improvements in threat detection and response capabilities. The role requires hands-on experience with various Microsoft security tools and scripting for automation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineering and optimising Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM)
- Building detections, use cases and monitoring dashboards
- Onboarding log sources and integrating across platforms
- Developing automation (Logic Apps / APIs / scripting)
- Working across the Microsoft Defender suite (Endpoint, Identity, Cloud)
- Driving improvements in threat detection and response capability
Key Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience across Defender suite (Endpoint, Identity etc)
- Solid KQL skills (detection engineering)
- Background in SIEM engineering / SecOps platforms
- Experience integrating systems and handling large-scale log ingestion
- Scripting (PowerShell / Python) for automation
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
About the Company Nagarro is a global digital engineering leader, known for delivering large scale data, cloud, and technology transformation programmes across financial services and other regulated industries. With a presence across 30+ countries, Nagarro partners with enterprise clients to drive meaningful, technology led change. We’re hiring a hands-on Security Engineer to join a high-performing cyber team, focused on building and scaling a modern Microsoft security stack. This is an engineering-led role, not governance or GRC, working across SIEM, detection and platform optimisation at enterprise scale.
What you’ll be doing
- Engineering and optimising Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM)
- Building detections, use cases and monitoring dashboards
- Onboarding log sources and integrating across platforms
- Developing automation (Logic Apps / APIs / scripting)
- Working across the Microsoft Defender suite (Endpoint, Identity, Cloud)
- Driving improvements in threat detection and response capability
What we’re looking for
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience across Defender suite (Endpoint, Identity etc)
- Solid KQL skills (detection engineering)
- Background in SIEM engineering / SecOps platforms
- Experience integrating systems and handling large-scale log ingestion
- Scripting (PowerShell / Python) for automation