Director of Security and Compliance safeguarding digital assets and data with a focus on cybersecurity and compliance. Leading risk management, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership initiatives.
About the role
- Senior SOC Engineer at Pearson's Security Operations Centre. Leading design, implementation, and optimization of security tooling and infrastructure to enhance detection capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain SIEM, SOAR, EDR, UEBA, and other SOC tooling.
- Develop and optimise detection content, including correlation rules, playbooks, and alert logic.
- Build automation workflows for incident response, enrichment, and case management.
- Integrate security platforms with enterprise systems to ensure seamless data flow and actionability.
- Establish onboarding pipelines for new log sources and data feeds.
- Maintain and enhance the detection stack, ensuring high fidelity and low false positives.
- Support SOC analysts during investigations and incident response.
- Tune detection logic based on threat intelligence and operational feedback.
- Lead technical escalations and provide guidance on remediation strategies.
- Work closely with CTI, IRM, and compliance teams to operationalise threat intelligence.
- Mentor junior engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Contribute to SOC maturity initiatives and roadmap development.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SOC engineering, detection content development, or security platform integration.
- Strong understanding of SIEM/SOAR architecture and incident response workflows.
- Hands-on experience with platforms such as Splunk, Siemplify, Sentinel, or similar.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred) for automation and enrichment.
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, threat modelling, and detection engineering best practices.
- Excellent documentation and communication skills.
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