Role: SOC - Security Content Engineer

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: Specialist

Role Description

The Security Content Engineer designs, develops, and optimises detection logic, correlation rules, and analytic content across SOC platforms. They ensure the SOC maintains high detection efficacy with minimal false positives.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement detection use cases in SIEM and SOAR platforms based on threat intelligence and incident trends.

• Develop and maintain detection logic aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and organisational threat models.

• Tune and optimise existing correlation rules to reduce noise and improve accuracy.

• Validate detections through controlled simulations and red team feedback

• Collaborate with the SOC Tooling Engineer to ensure efficient data source utilisation and parsing logic.

• Document detection use cases, logic, testing methodology, and expected outputs.

• Support compliance and audit efforts by ensuring use-case traceability and documentation.

• Review post-incident findings to enhance detection and response coverage.

• Maintain a repository of SOC use cases, KPIs, and performance metrics.

Role Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, or related field

• Experience: 6–8 years in SOC content engineering, detection development, or SIEM administration.

• Certifications (preferred): Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin / Engineer, GIAC GCDA, or similar.

The following skills and experience are essential for this role

• Strong SIEM query writing (e.g., SPL, KQL), regex, data modelling and familiarity with ATT&CK mappings.

Please Note. Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and the candidate being granted a level of security clearance which typically requires 10 years continuous UK address history, usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK, and a declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Note:The above information relates to a specific client requirement

Closing Date for Applications: 01/06/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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