Security Tooling Engineer (Microsoft Defender)

Location: Stirling, United Kingdom

Company

M&G provides asset management, insurance, savings, and investment solutions, combining financial services expertise with a long heritage of innovation.

What you will do

• Act as a subject matter expert for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and maintain the platform's health and effectiveness.
• Develop and improve Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel capabilities, including monitoring coverage, automation, and operational performance.
• Onboard applications, services, and technology platforms with appropriate security monitoring and detection coverage.
• Maintain security log collection and ingestion capabilities, including Logstash integrations.
• Support incident response, investigations, audits, control testing, assurance reviews, and operational activities.
• Explore AI-driven security operations use cases and collaborate with technology, project, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience deploying, configuring, and managing Microsoft security technologies, particularly Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
• Experience engineering Microsoft Sentinel capabilities and working in Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with log management, data ingestion, and integration technologies.
• Experience supporting audits, assurance activities, or control testing.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, analytical, prioritisation, and planning skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical issues to non-specialist audiences and work independently or collaboratively across multiple priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code approaches and tooling.
• Experience mentoring junior team members and promoting security operations best practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements may be considered, with workplace adjustments available.
• UK pension scheme of up to 18%, including employer contributions.
• Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, plus financial wellbeing support.
• 38 days of annual leave including bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to five additional days.
• Paid parental leave, private healthcare, critical illness cover, and life assurance.