Staff Security Engineer (Security Operations)

Location: United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global provides a WebOps platform that helps developers, IT, and marketing teams develop, test, and release website changes faster and more reliably.

What you will do

• Command complex security incidents, including data breach scenarios, coordinated attacks, and platform-level events.
• Define and improve incident response methodology, including severity frameworks, escalation paths, playbooks, runbooks, on-call standards, and SLAs.
• Lead MITRE ATT&CK-aligned threat hunting across cloud, endpoint, and identity environments, converting findings into higher-fidelity detections.
• Set the automation direction for triage, enrichment, investigation, and response while contributing operator judgment to the AI-assisted ARES platform.
• Govern Google SecOps (Chronicle), including detection coverage, log source strategy, data quality, and cost.
• Mentor analysts and engineers, communicate operational risk to senior leadership, and support threat intelligence, resilience testing, audits, and red/purple team exercises.

Requirements

• 8+ years of information security experience, including substantial security operations experience and demonstrated command of major incidents.
• Deep knowledge of incident response methodology such as NIST 800-61 or SANS PICERL, with experience building or materially improving an incident response programme.
• Expertise in threat hunting, attacker tradecraft, MITRE ATT&CK, detection logic, and response procedures.
• Daily experience with AI assistants and LLM tooling, plus an engineering mindset with Python, Bash, APIs, and cloud-native environments.
• Experience operating an enterprise SIEM at governance level; Google SecOps/Chronicle is preferred, with Splunk, Sentinel, or Elastic also accepted.
• CISSP or equivalent security certification depth and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work environment built around trust, teamwork, passion, customers first, individuality, humour, and balance.
• Industry-competitive compensation and equity plan.
• 28 days of holiday, private medical and dental coverage, life and critical illness insurance, and a workplace pension scheme.
• Top-of-line equipment, wellness and reading allowance, and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Team and company-wide events, activities, and an employee resource platform.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.