Engineer, Threat Detection - 5

Tide Platform Limited

Job Overview

Location

United Kingdom

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• The Tide Security Engineering team is made up of three core areas: Product Security, Identity, Threat Detection & Response.
• The Threat Detection & Response team focuses on protecting the company by building a robust detection and automation platform.
• The team is proactive in their defence, constantly hacking themselves to improve their security posture and staying ahead of emerging threats.
• The goal is to make Tide resilient against the ever-evolving threat landscape.
• The team supports the development and implementation of a strategic vision for threat detection, driving the overall direction and priorities for a team of highly talented engineers.
• The team gets hands-on with SIEM systems, including creating custom log-parsers for in-house applications, configuring alert rules, performing log analysis and tuning detections to reduce false positives.
• The team creates security automations and services to automate mundane tasks; from data enrichment to automatically removing phishing emails from employee mailboxes.
• The team continuously hunts for sophisticated threats across their infrastructure, leveraging threat intelligence and innovative detection techniques to stay ahead of attackers.
• The team collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop and implement business-specific threat detection rules.
• The team is responsible for ensuring the quality of detections, and uptime of their detection ecosystem through mature test-driven development paired with proactive health monitoring capabilities.
• The team identifies opportunities to build or enhance internal tools that streamline threat detection processes, improve data visibility, and increase response efficiency.
• The team leads complex incident investigations, coordinating efforts across the security, IT, and engineering teams to ensure rapid and effective containment, remediation, and recovery.
• The team supports as part of the wider security incident response on-call rota.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong knowledge with one of the following: Splunk, Scanner, Sentinel, SecOps.
• Strong understanding of modern attack and defence techniques which apply to Cloud (AWS, GCP), SaaS (such as Google Workspace and Okta) and desktop (Windows and macOS) environments.
• Passion for passing on knowledge to fellow colleagues.
• Hands-on attitude and the ability to drive solutions to completion.
• Strong experience in security automation, from writing scripts to creating end-to-end automated workflows. Familiarity with SOAR platforms and automating threat detection and response tasks.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Experience with writing automation and scripts; bonus points if you have a repository to show-case your work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Compensation - competitive salary and share options.
• Time Off – Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays.
• Parental Leave – Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support your family journey.
• Sabbatical – Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide.
• Access to salary sacrifice benefits – like Nursery (could save up to 47% on fees!) and Cycle to Work discounts.
• Health Insurance – Comprehensive Private family insurance plan.
• Life & Accident Cover – Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection.
• Mental Wellbeing – Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
• Retierment Planning – Build your retirement fund faster with Tide’s pension scheme on eligible earnings.
• Volunteering & Development Days – Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth.
• Learning & Development – Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more.
• WOO (Work Outside the Office) – Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
• Home Office Setup – Contribution towards setting up your home office.
• Laptop Ownership – Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement.
• Snacks & Meals – Daily breakfast spread with all-day coffee, tea, and juices.

Skills & Technologies

AWS

GCP

Splunk

Remote

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About Tide Platform Limited

Tide Platform Limited is a UK-based financial technology company providing business banking services to small and medium-sized enterprises. It offers digital current accounts, expense cards, invoicing, accounting integrations, and credit products through a mobile-first platform. Operating under an e-money licence with banking services provided by ClearBank, Tide serves over 500,000 UK businesses. The company focuses on streamlining financial administration for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and growing companies through automated features and integrations with accounting software like Xero and FreeAgent.

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