Automation Engineer

Shape the Future of SOC Engineering.

Are you passionate about automation, AI, cloud technologies and building smarter ways of working?

We're looking for a Senior SOC Engineer to join our growing Aerospace, Defence & Security business, helping to transform how a modern Security Operations Centre operates. You'll play a pivotal role in driving automation, improving engineering standards and introducing AI-assisted engineering practices across a high-performing SOC environment.

This is a unique opportunity to become a key member within the Detection Engineering team, helping to reduce manual effort, improve consistency and deliver scalable, repeatable solutions that strengthen cyber defence capabilities.

As a Senior SOC Engineer, you'll work across automation, DevOps, data, reporting and cloud technologies to improve operational efficiency and engineering maturity.

Hybrid: Farnborough 3 days per week, 2 days home based.

SC Cleared or eligible.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and develop automation solutions, scripts and engineering workflows.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering practices and help shape responsible AI adoption.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Git-based workflows.
• Develop dashboards, reporting solutions and operational insights using Power BI and other tooling.
• Work with Azure services to create scalable and reliable engineering solutions.
• Improve data quality, transformation processes and reporting accuracy.
• Support the evolution of engineering standards, governance and best practice.
• Collaborate with security, service and operational teams to identify and deliver improvements.

What you will bring:

• Strong experience within engineering, automation, DevOps, reporting or operational improvement roles.
• Scripting and development expertise using PowerShell, Python or similar languages.
• Experience building automation workflows and repeatable technical processes.
• Azure DevOps experience including repositories, pipelines, version control and release processes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git and software engineering best practices.
• Experience creating dashboards and visualisations using Power BI, Excel or similar tools.
• Familiarity with APIs, data integrations and structured data sources
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud-based engineering principles.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience in Cyber Security, SOC or Security Engineering environments.
• Microsoft Sentinel experience.
• KQL, SQL or other query language knowledge.
• Power BI data modelling, DAX and Power Query experience.
• Logic Apps, Power Automate or Azure Automation.
• Terraform or Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Experience developing operational reporting and management information.
• Relevant certifications in Cloud, DevOps, Automation, AI or Cyber Security.

This role offers the opportunity to influence the future direction of SOC engineering by combining cutting-edge automation, AI-assisted practices and cloud technologies within a national security-focused environment.

You'll work alongside highly skilled cyber professionals, tackle complex technical challenges and help build innovative solutions that make a real operational impact.

If you're excited by automation, engineering excellence and the future of AI-enabled cyber operations, we'd love to hear from you.

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid 3 days per week in Farnborough

Security Clearance Level: Eligible for SC Clearance

Internal Recruiter: Jane

Salary: Up to £60,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 10 extra days, Health Shields, life assurance, pension.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other.

We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.