Senior Threat Detection Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Hybrid (UK)

Hamilton Barnes is representing a leading consultancy service who are looking to hire a Senior Threat Detection Engineer, working on site 3 days a week with a major bank.

We are seeking a talented Senior Threat Detection Engineer to join our team on a contract basis. As a Senior Threat Detection Engineer, you will play a key role in monitoring and handling response, and enhancing the threat detection capabilities to protect our organisation from cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities:

• Turn intelligence into actionable tasks such as use-case creation or enhancements, recreation of attack TTP's, and threat hunting
• Identify opportunities to enhance the protective and detective capabilities of the existing security services
• Deploy ruleset and policy changes on security control, following a change management process
• Work in conjunction with projects to assist in the creation of robust detection's
• Form repeatable processes for prioritizing and responding to alerts and developing playbooks

What You Will Ideally Bring:

• A strong ability to develop queries and enable robust detection of threats utilizing query language such as KQL (Microsoft) and/or SPL (Splunk)
• In depth knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Experience of working within a cyber security team (SOC, Pen Testing, Cyber Incident Response)
• Experience in writing or using security incident response playbooks
• Hands on, practical experience of security control engineering, threat hunting, or incident response

Contract Details:

• Duration: 6 months
• Location: Swindon OR London (3 Days Per Week)
• Day Rate: Up to £550 Per Day (Inside IR35)
• Start Date: ASAP

Senior Threat Detection Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Hybrid (UK)