Security Engineering SIEM Lead

Security Engineering SIEM Lead

Salary: London £80,000 - £90,000 / National £70,000 - £80,000

Are you someone who thrives on solving complex security challenges and has a passion for building and leading SIEM strategies? We are seeking a skilled & driven SIEM expert to join Aviva’s Security Engineering Team, working within the wider Group CISO (Chief Information Security Office) business unit. You will be expected to deliver an ambitious and highly diverse pipeline of work across multiple SAAS and cloud environments, whilst maturing the existing service and building out and developing the team.

A bit about the job:

As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for reviewing and enhancing our current logging practices into the SIEM, developing effective alerting mechanisms, and identifying potential threats to our organization. This role requires a strong understanding of SIEM Technologies, threat detection methodologies, and security best practices.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Logging Review and Improvement - Assess current logging practices and identify gaps in data collection and logging. Develop and own process to rationalise logs into SIEM. 

• Alerting Development - Design and implement alerting rules within a SOC environment to identify suspicious activities and potential threats.  

• Threat Identification and Analysis:  Collaborate with the incident response team to investigate alerts and respond to security incidents.  

• Documentation and Reporting - Create and maintain documentation related to logging configurations, alert rules, and incident response procedures. 

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £80,000 - £90,000 London based, £70,000 - £80,000 National based (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity – 12% annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Matthew Drew a call on 0121 234 7664 or send an email to matthew.drew@aviva.com