Detection Engineer

NCC Group plc • manchester, england • Posted July 01, 2026

About the Role

Detection Engineer

Department: Cyber Services and Capabilities

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: GBR Manchester Hardman Boulevard

Description

NCC Group is looking for a Detection Engineer to join the Detection Engineering team. The role will focus on developing, maintaining, and improving Splunk-based security detections across cloud, infrastructure, and custom log sources. The successful candidate will help turn security risks, threat models, assurance requirements, and log sources into practical detections that can be deployed, tuned, and documented.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain detections using Splunk SPL.
  • Analyse logs from cloud, infrastructure, application, gateway, Linux, SSH, CDN, vulnerability management, and audit sources.
  • Create detections for areas such as:
    • cloud security monitoring and cloud control-plane activity,
    • infrastructure, platf...