Principal Security Consultant – SIEM

Company: RiverSafe
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Location: London
Job Description:

Role

  • Lead the design, deployment and tuning of enterprise-grade SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk, Azure Sentinel etc.)
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define logging requirements, use cases, detection rules and dashboards
  • Oversee integration of data sources from cloud, on-prem, endpoint, network and application layers
  • Create and maintain detection rules, correlation logic and alerts tailored to specific threat scenarios
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to team members
  • Work closely with SOC teams to align SIEM capabilities with business objectives
  • Conduct SIEM health checks, performance tuning and capacity planning

Skills

  • Expertise in SIEM design, deployment and optimisation
  • Hands-on expertise with one or more major SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk, Sentinel etc.)
  • Deep understanding of log ingestion, parsing, normalisation and enrichment
  • Strong grasp of MITRE ATT&CK framework, threat detection and alert logic
  • Solid scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash)
  • Experience with cloud logging and monitoring (AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP etc.)
  • Experience with threat modelling, cloud security or Identity and Access Management is desirable

Posted: April 28th, 2025