Northampton Business Directory is hiring: Security Engineer in Northampton

Security Engineer – 3-month contract – Northampton/Remote

My Customer is looking for a proactive Security Engineer to join their team and take ownership of monitoring, triaging, and responding to security alerts across their Microsoft security ecosystem.

Strong experience troubleshooting and responding to alerts would be the main focus of the role. Strong expertise with Microsoft Defender and Sentinel is needed.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong experience with Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM) and Microsoft Defender suite (Defender for Endpoint, Identity, Cloud, etc.).
• Proven track record in security monitoring, incident response, and alert troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of SOAR platforms (preferably within Sentinel or similar).
• Understanding of threat detection, log analysis, and automation within Microsoft’s security ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents in Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender.
• Perform detailed security event analysis and correlation, escalating incidents where necessary.
• Develop and optimise SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) playbooks to enhance incident response and efficiency.
• Collaborate with wider IT and security teams to improve threat detection, incident handling, and response processes.

Beneficial Experience

• Exposure to Operational Technology (OT) environments.
• Experience with Tenable (vulnerability management).
• Knowledge of Microsoft Purview (data governance, compliance, and information protection).

The Security Engineer is required onsite, 2 days a week in Northampton and 3 days remote.