Cyber Security Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Cyber Security Engineer for our public sector client based in London on an initial 6-month contract, paying up to £371.04 per day (Inside IR35).

This role offers hybrid working with an expectation to attend the office as required.

The successful Senior Cyber Security Engineer will be a hands‑on technical expert with deep experience across Crowd Strike and Splunk, comfortable working closely with an outsourced SOC partner to maximise the value of existing security investments. You will bring senior‑level expertise to manage, integrate and optimise SOC capabilities whilst also upskilling the existing internal team.

• Hands‑on experience with Crowd Strike Falcon including Prevent, Insight and Discover, with policy configuration and endpoint strategy experience
• Proficiency in Splunk including writing complex SPL queries and working with Splunk Enterprise Security to build dashboards, alerts and data models
• Acting as a technical escalation point for high priority security incidents using EDR and SIEM tools
• Developing SOAR workflows to automate security responses and reduce manual intervention
• Proactive threat hunting using specialised queries to identify undetected malicious activity
• Strong understanding of network protocols, cloud security across AWS or Azure, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Training and upskilling team members across Crowd Strike, Splunk and security analysis

Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing experience would be a bonus.

Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Engineer certification is required for this role.

Crowd Strike certifications including CCFA, CCFR or CCSE are highly desirable.