Cyber Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer** AWS security skills are a must have for this role – EC2 incidence related. Being able to show your thought process behind this is also critical. **

Salary: £80,000–£90,000 per year Location: Central London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week

My client is seeking a skilled Cyber Security Engineer to join their growing Information Security function. This is a strategic and hands-on role, helping to shape and mature the organisation’s security engineering capability while ensuring robust protection across a complex and diverse technology estate.

The Role

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will play an integral part in safeguarding systems, networks and infrastructure. You will identify security gaps, analyse risks, recommend solutions and work closely with stakeholders across the business to implement and maintain strong security controls.

Your work will span monitoring systems for suspicious activity, improving processes, defining controls, supporting risk treatment, and ensuring security is embedded into products, platforms and operations. You’ll translate technical issues into clear, accessible language, helping teams understand risk and adopt secure practices. 

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, assess and document security control requirements, recommending and implementing solutions.
• Perform security reviews, uncover gaps in posture and contribute to security risk management plans.
• Configure, troubleshoot and maintain security infrastructure, tools and technologies.
• Monitor systems for irregularities and support preventive security measures.
• Conduct risk assessments and collaborate with teams to provide context and impact analysis.
• Define, document and improve processes, developing a clear and accessible security knowledge base.
• Support stakeholders across engineering, infrastructure, editorial and wider business teams.
• Capture and manage risks, issues, decisions and dependencies throughout security initiatives.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Strong grounding in security engineering principles, practices and risk management.
• Experience working with a broad range of security controls (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, firewalls, secure SDLC, cloud security configuration, CIS hardening, API security).
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS and OWASP.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and high initiative.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security or related discipline, or equivalent professional certification.
• Multi-year experience in a security engineering role.

Desirable:

• CISSP certification.
• Cloud security certifications for AWS.
• Risk management experience (CRISC, ISO 27005, NIST RMF).
• Network security and coding experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, GitHub).
• Penetration testing exposure.