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Senior SOC Engineer

Senior SOC Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Senior

Full Time

12-02-2026

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Skills

Incident Response

Job Specifications

Financial Service firm seeks a Senior SOC Engineer to join its growing security function. This role will play a key part in strengthening detection capabilities, enhancing threat response, and helping shape the future of the organisation’s SOC.

If you enjoy hands-on technical work, solving complex security challenges, and working within a collaborative and supportive team environment, this role offers both impact and growth.

As a Senior SOC Engineer, you will partake in day-to-day SOC activities whilst contributing to detection engineering, including creating and developing use cases. You’ll work closely with infrastructure and development teams to ensure strong security coverage across both on-prem and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Monitor, analyse, and investigate security alerts through SIEM platforms
Lead threat investigations and escalate risks appropriately
Conduct proactive threat hunting and identify emerging vulnerabilities
Support incident response and remediation efforts
Develop and refine detection use cases to continuously enhance SOC capability
Contribute to broader cybersecurity initiatives and strategic improvements
Collaborate across technology teams to embed security best practices
Participate in a 1-in-4 on-call rotation

This role is 4 days in office, and 1 day working from home.

*Please note this role cannot offer sponsorship*

About the Company

Barclay Simpson is a specialist international recruitment company that recruits Cyber Security, Technology and Governance professionals across internal audit, risk management, information / cyber security, technology and change, regulatory compliance, financial crime, resilience, data protection, data analytics, and legal & governance professionals across all sectors of the economy. Established in 1989, we are based in London and Frankfurt and recruit for clients throughout the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. Know more