Security Engineer

The role

As a Security Delivery Engineer youll be responsible for delivering onboarding and continuously improving security services across live customer environments.

Youll take ownership of engineering activity throughout the full service lifecycle from customer onboarding and transition through to BAU improvement service optimisation and engineering-led escalations.

This is a hands-on role where youll help ensure security platforms are implemented correctly maintained to a high standard and continually improved through continuous improvement activity. Youll also support clean effective handovers into SOC operations where required.

Acting as the link between delivery engineering and live SOC operations youll help make sure our security services are stable scalable and operationally effective for our customers.

What will I be doing

BAU Security Engineering:

Deliver core Security Engineering across live environments ensuring security stability and performance.
Maintain and optimise detections alerts enrichment and automation across SIEM EDR/XDR and cloud platforms.
Review vulnerabilities and security posture providing prioritised remediation guidance.
Support SOC investigations with engineering expertise.
Create and maintain documentation standards and runbooks.

Delivery & Onboarding Engineering:

Lead engineering for onboarding transitions and service changes ensuring consistent secure delivery.
Deploy and configure SIEM EDR/XDR cloud security logging and integrations to agreed designs.
Tune detections alerts and automation to ensure production readiness.
Implement SOAR playbooks and automation for SOC operations.

Engineering Escalations:

Act as escalation point for complex or recurring service issues.
Investigate root causes of incidents instability and detection failures implementing fixes.
Partner with SOC and Engineering Leads to reduce repeat escalations.

Continuous Improvement (CI):

Drive continuous improvements across live environments onboarding and platforms.
Identify enhancements to detection quality automation efficiency and resilience.
Embed lessons learned into standards templates and service patterns.
Support the maturity and scalability of ANS security services.

Service Readiness & Handover:

Ensure structured handover to SOC including docs detections runbooks and escalation paths.
Validate monitoring alerting and response meet service levels pre-BAU.
Provide early-life support post-onboarding or major changes.

Customer Engagement:

Engage customers during onboarding changes and escalations with clear technical guidance.
Collaborate with Architects Engineering Leads and Customer Success to align delivery.
Support sales opportunities.

What will I bring to the role

A good understanding of the following technologies is required:

• Strong experience with Linux Windows and virtualised environments.
• Handson experience with Azure Microsoft 365 and AWS security.
• Practical experience operating and improving SIEM and XDR platforms (e.g. Microsoft Sentinel Defender Carbon Black).
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell Python Bash).
• Strong understanding of incident response alerting logging and engineering escalation workflows.
• Ability to balance BAU engineering delivery work and CI improvement
• NetworkDefence
• NIST CVSS Vulnerabilities and scoring system
• OS Specific log data
• IPTables
• Knowledge of secure development principles and OWASP top 10

The following Soft Skills are needed:

• Clear and concise communication skills
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Willingness to develop with continual learning.
• Logical problem-solving abilities
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good time management skills.
• Skilled in discussing complex security issues in understandable business terms.
• Proactive approach and work ethic
• Customer facing skills

Essential:

• Candidate must be capable of achieving HMG Security Clearance

At ANS weve created a place where everyone can be themselves and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness ambition honesty and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold courageous and innovative and we do it like no other. We invest in our training development health and more we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.

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Whats in it for you
With fantastic benefits an inclusive culture and a cool office space were your kind of workplace.

Company benefits

• As standard:25 daysholiday plus you can buy up to5 moredays
• A little extra:well give you yourbirthday offand an extracelebration dayfor whatever you want!Tying the knotYou get 5 days additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh and 5volunteer days!
• Private health insurance
• Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
• Flexible workingandwork from anywherefor up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
• Maternity: 16 weeks full pay Paternity: 3 weeks full pay Adoption: 16 weeks full pay
• Company social events get ready for a jam-packed calendar
• Electric car scheme
• 12 days of personal growth development time

ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly regardless of age disability gender reassignment gender expression marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.