
Sanderson Government and Defence
SOAR Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Active SC clearance
- Proven experience working within CNI or OT environments
- Strong hands-on experience with SOAR platforms and Splunk
- A solid grasp of the differences between securing OT and IT
- Comfortable operating in a live, high-consequence environment where good judgement matters as much as technical skill
- Designing, building, and maintaining SOAR playbooks to automate detection and response workflows
- Developing and tuning Splunk use cases, dashboards, and correlation searches across IT and OT data sources
- Supporting incident detection and response within CNI/OT environments, working closely with engineering and safety teams
- Contributing to the maturity of security monitoring across converged industrial and enterprise networks
- Working within a team that understands the unique constraints of OT, including availability, safety, and legacy systems, versus traditional IT security
- Support
- Security
- Splunk
More:
We are a leading cyber security firm supporting a critical national infrastructure client on an 18-month fixed-term contract. This is a high-visibility role within our security operations function, focused on protecting operational technology environments that underpin essential national services. We offer the potential for extension or conversion to a permanent role, subject to programme trajectory. We value respect, equality, and inclusion, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know when you apply or speak to our recruiters directly so we can support you.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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Sanderson Government and Defence
Cheltenham
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£100,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 67% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks