About this role
Salary: £55,000 - 65,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience in Cyber Defence Engineering, Security Engineering, Detection Engineering or a similar role
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, ideally Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender
- Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL), including custom queries and detection logic
- Experience working with Azure and associated cloud security services
- Strong understanding of security monitoring, logging and threat detection
- Experience with vulnerability scanning, vulnerability management or application security testing tools
- Scripting or automation experience using Python, PowerShell or similar
- Understanding of threat intelligence, threat hunting and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across technical teams
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve threat detection capabilities across SIEM, endpoint and cloud security platforms
- Configure and optimise security tooling to improve monitoring, visibility and threat detection
- Develop custom queries, analytics and alerting to identify potential security threats
- Maintain and validate logging and telemetry pipelines across cloud and on-premises environments
- Support vulnerability management, application security testing and attack surface management
- Implement recommendations from red team exercises, threat hunting and threat intelligence activities
- Translate emerging threats into improved detection rules and security controls
- Support security tool integrations and automation initiatives
- Collaborate with Cyber Defence, Infrastructure and Architecture teams to strengthen security capabilities
Technologies
- Azure
- Cloud
- Support
- PowerShell
- Python
- Security
- DevOps
More
We at VIQU are partnering with a leading organisation to strengthen its Cyber Defence capabilities by hiring a Cyber Defence Engineer. The role focuses on engineering and optimising security tooling across cloud and on-premises environments, and involves working with offensive and defensive security teams. It is based in London, offers hybrid working with three days per week in the office, and pays up to £65,000. We offer a referral reward of up to £1,000 for a successful referral, subject to terms.
last updated 46 week of 2026