Cyber Security Engineer - Contract

Senior Cyber Defence Engineer: 4-month contract, Stockholm Start: ASAP Duration: 4 months, full-time Location: Stockholm, on-site A household name needs a senior engineer to step into its SOC and make it work better. This is a hands-on build role, not an advisory one. You Will

• Engineer and improve SOC capability across Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR: detections, telemetry, integrations and analyst workflows
• Put real structure around service ownership, lifecycle, change control, monitoring and technical roadmaps
• Lead technical initiatives across Cyber Defence, the SOC and the platform and app teams that depend on them

You Bring

• Strong hands-on SOC or Cyber Defence Engineering experience
• Deep, practical Sentinel and Defender XDR experience
• SIEM engineering: log pipelines, telemetry onboarding, integrations, detection engineering
• Senior tech lead or principal IC level, with a track record of leading SOC engineering work across multiple teams
• The ability to walk into a messy environment, see what’s needed and drive it through
• An Azure certification (SC-200, AZ-500 or similar)

Bonus: SOAR, MSSP integrations and security platform lifecycle management.