Security Operations Consultant - London

Security Operations Consultant - LondonReference Code: 298647-en_GBContract Type: PermanentProfessional Communities: Cybersecurity

About the job you’re considering

Capgemini’s Global Cybersecurity Practice, with over 4,000 professionals worldwide, delivers impactful and secure solutions across IT and OT environments—from networks to cloud services and everything in between. We work across all sectors, including government and secure industries, offering strategic consulting, architecture design, implementation, and managed services such as those delivered by our global network of Security Operations Centres (SOC).

We’re proud to offer a comprehensive portfolio that supports our clients’ business goals through scalable, secure, and innovative solutions. Our approach balances flexibility, cost-efficiency, and future-readiness—enhancing service quality, productivity, and user satisfaction.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:

identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

As a Security Operations Consultant, you’ll collaborate with clients and colleagues to deliver security-focused activities across one or more of the following areas:

• Design, configure, and optimise SOC tooling including SIEM, SOAR, NDR, EDR/XDR and Vulnerability Management platforms.
• Define and implement firewall monitoring and alerting integrations.
• Develop and document detection use cases, response workflows, playbooks, handover documentation, operational guides for the run team.
• Integrate log sources, network devices, and security controls into monitoring platforms.
• Conduct threat modelling and hunting exercises to validate detection coverage and collaborate with infrastructure, network, and application teams to ensure visibility and coverage.
• Provide expert consultancy on operational security best practices and tooling alignment with business requirements.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. You may have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Proven experience in SOC operations or engineering, with a focus on tooling enablement and process readiness.
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM/SOAR tools (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar).
• Deep understanding of firewall technologies and security event monitoring integration.
• Familiarity with EDR/XDR and log source onboarding.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, detection engineering, and threat hunting methodologies.
• Excellent documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

If you’re passionate about cybersecurity and want to grow in a supportive and inclusive environment, we’d love to hear from you.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

-Declare they have a disability, and

-Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain .

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Capgemini. Make it real.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. A powerful source of energy that drives us all to find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses. And it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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