Senior Security Operations Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: London, UK; hybrid working with typically 2–3 days in the office

Salary: £90,000–£100,000 GBP per year

Company

hirify.global develops a network of connected organisations that share security maturity information and visualise supply-chain risks to defend against cybersecurity attacks.

What you will do

• Own and continuously improve security monitoring, detection, and incident response across cloud, endpoint, and SaaS environments.
• Build and tune detections, reduce alert fatigue, and improve threat identification and response confidence.
• Develop vulnerability management through scanning, risk-based prioritisation, remediation, and tracking.
• Improve AWS and GCP security posture through identity management, telemetry, network security, encryption, and continuous assessment.
• Design scalable security services and evolve telemetry and detection platforms as operational capabilities mature.
• Partner with engineering and technology leadership on secure-by-design practices, security initiatives, AI governance, and the long-term security roadmap.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security operations, security engineering, or incident response.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS and/or GCP environments.
• Deep experience with SIEM, EDR, detection engineering, alert triage, and incident response.
• Experience with vulnerability management, security telemetry, and security tooling including DLP, MDM, and cloud security platforms.
• Experience automating security processes with Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, networking, distributed systems, cloud architectures, and AI security risks.

Nice to have

• Cloud-native security architecture or detection engineering programme experience.
• Threat hunting, purple teaming, CNAPP, CSPM, or exposure management experience.
• Experience with eBPF, modern observability, SOAR, policy-as-code, or security governance.
• Knowledge of supply-chain security, software integrity, AI/LLM security, agentic systems, or model governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working policy with typically 2–3 office days per week.
• Competitive base salary, EMI equity package, private pension, and private healthcare with enhanced mental wellbeing coverage.
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and up to 30 additional days of unpaid leave annually.
• Enhanced parental leave, caretaker’s leave, and occupational sick pay.
• £500 work-from-home budget, learning resources, books, and regular company socials.