Senior Detection & Response Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom. Hybrid role with predominantly remote work available, but candidates must live within a comfortable commuting distance of the office and attend onsite when required.

Company

hirify.global is a game development company creating community-powered online worlds, including the RuneScape franchise, for PC and mobile platforms.

What you will do

• Lead escalated security investigations, developing hypotheses, collecting evidence, and determining root cause and impact.
• Build and optimise detection rules, queries, and monitoring logic across cloud, endpoint, network, and application environments.
• Develop tooling and automation for security telemetry, alert enrichment, investigation workflows, and response times.
• Conduct threat hunting using adversary behaviours, TTPs, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Create and improve incident runbooks, playbooks, and detection processes.
• Collaborate with the external SOC and internal engineering teams, including participation in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience investigating security incidents, collecting artefacts, and analysing endpoint, network, and application data.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM and security monitoring tooling, including complex investigation queries.
• Understanding of adversary TTPs, offensive security concepts, and MITRE ATT&CK principles.
• Practical experience with cloud environments, security controls, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Experience developing detection logic, runbooks, automation, or security tooling.
• Knowledge of operating system internals and forensic investigation across Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Nice to have

• Scripting experience with PowerShell or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Private healthcare, including a dental plan.
• Discretionary annual performance bonus.
• Minimum 6% pension contributions and life insurance.
• Enhanced family leave policies from day one.
• Flexible working hours and 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Option to buy or sell holidays and an inclusive workplace focused on trust, autonomy, and collaboration.