Talanos Cybersecurity is a Managed Security Service Provider serving a diverse group of clients across financial services, legal, hospitality and IT sectors.
Our Managed Detection and Response service is operated by our in-house Security Operations Centre (SOC) located in India, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Our values
Talanos is a values-led business. We look for people who share our values when we hire.
- Connection as a team.
- Quality first.
- Care for our business, our clients and each other.
- Pride.
- Trust and accountability.
- Learning and sharing.
About the role
The Security Engineer will design, build and maintain engineering solutions that strengthen our 24/7 Managed Detection and Response service. The role combines hands-on support for the Security Operations Centre with cloud engineering, automation, migration, production support and transformation work.
The role reports to the CTO.
Primary responsibilities
- Build and improve threat detection logic,
making us smarter at spotting attackers
- Harden systems and reduce attack surface
- Write and tune detection rules (SIEM, EDR, XDR)
- Design and implement security controls (network, endpoint, cloud)
- Deploy and manage tools (firewalls, EDR, IAM, SIEM)
- Manage vulnerabilities and patching strategies
- Work across infrastructure, DevOps and cloud teams
- Support compliance and security architecture
- Reduce false positives and improve alert quality
- Operational engineering to alert pipelines and playbooks
- Tooling enhancement to improve SOC efficiency through automation, telemetry enrichment and integrations.
- Incident engineering to support investigations with scripts, enrichment sources and data pulls.
- Monitoring and metrics to produce telemetry visualisation and SLAs for detection coverage and operational reliability.
Required qualifications and experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Information