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Security Engineer

Salary
Location Manchester/Hybrid
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This is a , Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The role

As a Security Delivery Engineer, you’ll be responsible for delivering, onboarding, and continuously improving security services across live customer environments.

You’ll take ownership of engineering activity throughout the full service lifecycle, from customer onboarding and transition through to BAU improvement, service optimisation, and engineering-led escalations.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll help ensure security platforms are implemented correctly, maintained to a high standard, and continually improved through continuous improvement activity. You’ll also support clean, effective handovers into SOC operations where required.

Acting as the link between delivery, engineering, and live SOC operations, you’ll help make sure our security services are stable, scalable, and operationally effective for our customers.

What will I be doing?

BAU Security Engineering:

• Deliver core Security Engineering across live environments, ensuring security, stability, and performance.
• Maintain and optimise detections, alerts, enrichment, and automation across SIEM, EDR/XDR, and cloud platforms.
• Review vulnerabilities and security posture, providing prioritised remediation guidance.
• Support SOC investigations with engineering expertise.
• Create and maintain documentation, standards, and runbooks.

Delivery & Onboarding Engineering:

• Lead engineering for onboarding, transitions, and service changes, ensuring consistent, secure delivery.
• Deploy and configure SIEM, EDR/XDR, cloud security, logging, and integrations to agreed designs.
• Tune detections, alerts, and automation to ensure production readiness.
• Implement SOAR playbooks and automation for SOC operations.

Engineering Escalations:

• Act as escalation point for complex or recurring service issues.
• Investigate root causes of incidents, instability, and detection failures, implementing fixes.
• Partner with SOC and Engineering Leads to reduce repeat escalations.

Continuous Improvement (CI):

• Drive continuous improvements across live environments, onboarding, and platforms.
• Identify enhancements to detection quality, automation, efficiency, and resilience.
• Embed lessons learned into standards, templates, and service patterns.
• Support the maturity and scalability of ANS security services.

Service Readiness & Handover:

• Ensure structured handover to SOC, including docs, detections, runbooks, and escalation paths.
• Validate monitoring, alerting, and response meet service levels pre-BAU.
• Provide early-life support post-onboarding or major changes.

Customer Engagement:

• Engage customers during onboarding, changes, and escalations with clear technical guidance.
• Collaborate with Architects, Engineering Leads, and Customer Success to align delivery.
• Support sales opportunities.

What will I bring to the role?

A good understanding of the following technologies is required: 

  • Strong experience with Linux, Windows, and virtualised environments.
  • Hands‑on experience with Azure, Microsoft 365, and AWS security.
  • Practical experience operating and improving SIEM and XDR platforms (e.g. Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, Carbon Black).
  • Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
  • Strong understanding of incident response, alerting, logging, and engineering escalation workflows.
  • Ability to balance BAU engineering, delivery work, and CI improvement
  • Network Defence 
  • NIST CVSS Vulnerabilities and scoring system 
  • OS Specific log data  
  • IPTables 
  • Knowledge of secure development principles and OWASP top 10

The following Soft Skills are needed:

  • Clear and concise communication skills
  • Strong emotional intelligence
  • Willingness to develop with continual learning.
  • Logical problem-solving abilities
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Good time management skills.
  • Skilled in discussing complex security issues in understandable business terms.
  • Proactive approach and work ethic
  • Customer facing skills

Essential: 

  • Candidate must be capable of achieving HMG Security Clearance

At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.

We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.

What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace. 

Company benefits

  • As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
  • A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
  • Private health insurance
  • Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
  • Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
  • Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
  • Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
  • Electric car scheme
  • 12 days of personal growth development time

ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.

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