Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3)
Posted 1 day ago by Synapri
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Warwickshire, Leamington Spa, United Kingdom, CV311
Job Description
The Role 
We're working with a leading organisation looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer (SOC Engineer L3) to join their security function.
This is a highly technical role focused on SOC engineering, detection engineering, SIEM/SOAR, security automation and AI-driven security operations.
You'll design and improve security monitoring, detection, response and automation capabilities across a large enterprise environment, with a particular focus on AI and agentic technologies.
Key Responsibilities- Design and optimise security monitoring, SIEM and detection capabilities.
- Onboard and manage security logs, including ingestion, parsing, normalisation and enrichment.
- Develop and tune detection rules, correlation searches and threat detection use cases.
- Build SOAR playbooks, automated response workflows and security integrations.
- Integrate SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, IAM, vulnerability management and cloud security tools.
- Support incident response, threat hunting and security investigations.
- Develop dashboards, reporting and metrics to improve SOC performance.
- Lead AI-driven security initiatives, including AI agents and agentic workflows for alert triage, investigation and response.
- Work closely with Security, Infrastructure, Cloud and Application teams.
We're looking for someone with strong experience in SOC Engineering, Detection Engineering or Security Engineering.
You'll ideally have experience with:
- SIEM Engineering and security monitoring
- Detection Engineering, including TTPs, IoCs and Threat Intelligence
- Detection tuning and false-positive reduction
- SOAR and security automation
- Log onboarding, parsing and normalisation
- AI agents / agentic workflows within security operations
- API integrations and Logic Apps
- Incident response and threat hunting
- Enterprise security tooling and automation
- Python scripting would be beneficial
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