Senior Data and Security Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Any UK office hub: Bristol, London, Manchester, or Swansea. Part-time remote working is available, but eligibility for SC clearance requires five years of UK residency and employment history or full-time education history. Occasional work outside standard Monday–Friday hours may be required during release, maintenance, or client operating windows.

Salary: £55,000–£85,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers digital and security services for UK public sector clients whose services are used by millions of people.

What you will do

• Manage and optimise log ingestion, enrichment, routing, filtering, and normalisation pipelines on Cribl Cloud and Cribl Stream.
• Support the flow and integrity of AWS security telemetry, including CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, EKS audit logs, and IAM activity.
• Build and maintain Splunk data models, accelerated searches, field extractions, and OCSF-aligned schemas.
• Diagnose ingestion failures, pipeline backpressure, schema mismatches, forwarding issues, and other transport bottlenecks.
• Manage streaming and security data storage using Kinesis, S3, Amazon Security Lake, and hot, warm, and cold data tiers.
• Develop and tune SIEM and EDR detection logic while monitoring signal-to-noise ratios and rule quality.

Requirements

• Senior-level hands-on experience designing and securing AWS cloud infrastructure; Azure and Google Cloud experience is beneficial.
• Experience supporting Splunk SPL detection rule development and working with SIEM platforms.
• Practical experience with Cribl, Kinesis, S3, SQS, streaming data pipelines, and OCSF-based data normalisation.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust, identity-first security, secrets management, KMS, TLS, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Previous experience working with or alongside UK Government Civil Servants and understanding of public sector security assurance requirements.
• Eligibility for UK SC security clearance is required, including five years of UK residency and employment or education history.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working with UK government security forums or emerging public sector security practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in multidisciplinary teams with delivery managers, analysts, engineers, and architects.
• Structured career development and communities of practice.
• Support for external engagement, including security forums, speaking events, and thought leadership.
• 30 days of paid annual leave and flexible parental leave.
• Part-time remote working, paid counselling, financial and legal advice, and a 7% employer-matched pension.