Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer Key Information Contract: 24 Months Rate: Up to £680 per day (Inside IR35) Location: Stevenage Onsite Requirement: 4 days per week We're supporting a leading defence organisation on the search…

Inside IR35 IT
Pay rate £680 – £700/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 26 August 2026

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Cyber Security Engineer

Key Information
Contract: 24 Months
Rate: Up to £680 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: Stevenage
Onsite Requirement: 4 days per week

We're supporting a leading defence organisation on the search for a Cyber Security Engineer to join a growing Cyber Security Operations function.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on large-scale security tooling, detection capabilities and SOC technologies within a complex, highly secure environment. You'll play a key role in enhancing security visibility, improving detection capabilities and supporting the ongoing evolution of cyber defence tooling.

What You'll Be Doing

Supporting and improving SOC security tooling and capabilities
Managing and optimising SIEM and threat detection platforms
Developing and enhancing automation and security playbooks
Supporting tool integrations, data onboarding and log ingestion
Investigating security events and improving detection coverage
Assisting with platform upgrades, maintenance and lifecycle activities
Working closely with analysts, engineers and security stakeholders to deliver new capabilitiesWhat We're Looking For

We're keen to speak with Cyber Security Engineers, SOC Engineers and Security Engineers who have experience with some of the following:

SIEM technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk or QRadar
Security Operations Centre (SOC) environments
Threat detection, threat hunting or incident response
Scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell or similar
Security tooling, integrations and log management
Microsoft Defender, XDR or other endpoint security platformsYou don't need experience across everything listed above. If you have a strong security engineering background and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd encourage you to apply.

If you're interested in learning more, please Apply for a confidential discussion.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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