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Engaged with innovative initiatives, your expertise will propel our business into the future. Collaborating with a creative team of tech enthusiasts, you’ll contribute your unique skills to fuel our technological advancements.\nJoin Primark's Cyber Defence team as a SOC Engineer and help enhance the tools, detections and automation that protect a global retail organisation. You'll play a key role in improving security monitoring, strengthening threat detection capabilities and enabling effective incident response across a complex technology landscape.\n What you'll do\nEngineer, maintain and optimise security monitoring, detection and response tooling across the SOC environment.\n\nDevelop and tune detection rules, alert logic, correlation searches, playbooks and automation workflows.\n\nOnboard and maintain security log sources across cloud platforms, identity services, networks, endpoints and business applications.\n\nSupport integrations between SOC tooling, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, identity controls and incident response processes.\n\nInvestigate and resolve false positives, missed detections, telemetry gaps and tooling performance issues.\n\nCollaborate with Cyber Defence, Technology Operations, IDAM, Security Architecture and third-party providers to improve monitoring coverage.\n\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, detection quality, threat visibility and response effectiveness.\n\n What you'll bring\n4+ years' experience in Security Operations, Security Engineering or Detection Engineering.\n\nHands-on experience with SIEM platforms, security monitoring, telemetry management and response automation.\n\nExperience onboarding, configuring and troubleshooting log sources across cloud, identity, endpoint, network and application environments.\n\nStrong understanding of threat detection, alert tuning, monitoring use cases and investigation workflows.\n\nAbility to identify and resolve false positives, telemetry gaps and detection coverage weaknesses.\n\nExperience with technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, EDR, XDR or SOAR platforms is highly desirable.\n\nKnowledge of KQL, SPL, Python or PowerShell and relevant cyber security certifications would be advantageous.\n\n About Primark\nAt Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to over 80,000 colleagues and over 500 stores in 20 countries today and growing.\nSo, what’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. It’s that feeling that turns a job into something more. Celebrating the wins, working at pace, and pulling through the challenging times with passion, courage, and your team by your side. It’s what drives us every day.\nYou’re our driving force. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. 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