Cyber Security Engineer SOC
Aqilea (formerly Soltia) Stockholm, Sweden
IT Services and IT Consulting · 51-200 employees
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About the role
The engineer will improve SOC capabilities across Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR while managing security telemetry and detection workflows. They will also lead technical initiatives to establish engineering processes for service ownership, risk tracking, and documentation.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong practical experience in SOC or Cyber Defense Engineering with hands-on expertise in Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. A senior-level background with a proven ability to lead engineering initiatives and drive structure in immature environments is required.
Full description
Role: Cyber Security Engineer Job Ref Id: JD-1259 Competence level: Senior Start date: 2026-10-19 End date: 2027-03-31 Extension option: Yes Scope: 100% Location: Stockholm Remote work: 1 day per week Language: English Application deadline: 2026-10-26 Number of consultants: 1 Security clearance: No
About the assignment
We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer - SOC. Senior level. Start: asap. End: 31st March 2027.
Responsibilities
- Engineer and improve SOC capabilities across Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, security telemetry, detections, integrations and analysts workflows
- Establish and improve engineering processes for service ownership, lifecycle management, change control, monitoring, documentation, risk tracking and technical roadmaps
- Lead technical initiatives across cyber Defense Engineering, SOC and dependent platform or application teams
Requirements
Mandatory
- Strong practical experience in SOC or Cyber Defense Engineering
- Hands-on Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR experience
- Experience with SIEM engineering, telemetry onboarding, log pipelines, integrations and detection engineering
- Senior technical lead or principal level individual contributor, formal personnel management experience is not required but the consultant must have successfully led SOC engineering initiatives and improved engineering processes across multiple teams.
- The person must be able to assess an immature or unclear operating environment, propose pragmatic structure, drive implementation (not merely product recommendations)
Nice-to-have
- Experience with SOAR, MSSP integrations and security platform lifecycle management is highly desirable
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