Senior Security Engineer
Senior Security Engineer Location: Manchester 5 days per week onsite Salary: £100,000 £140,000 benefits Clearance: Active SC clearance required as a minimum, with willingness to undergo DV clearance Senior Security Engineer required for a major secure programme in Manchester. Ensure you read the information regarding this opportunity thoroughly before making an application. This Senior Security Engineer role will suit an experienced Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security Engineer, Network Security Engineer, Platform Security Engineer, Cyber Security Engineer or DevSecOps Engineer with strong enterprise firewalling, secure infrastructure, Elastic / SIEM, public cloud security and hands-on security engineering experience. This is a senior, hands-on role working across firewalling, on-premise and cloud security, secure infrastructure, network security, workload segmentation, hardening, monitoring, incident response and security architecture. The environment is highly secure and regulated, with a strong focus on enterprise firewalling, Elastic / Elasticsearch, VMware-based infrastructure, Cisco, Palo Alto, Windows hardening and AWS / public cloud security. Benefits Salary between £100,000 £140,000 depending on experience Full employee benefits package Private healthcare Pension Major secure programme Senior technical role with strategic influence Opportunity to shape security across a critical platform High-security, high-impact environment The Role You will act as a key technical security point of contact across the platform, working closely with infrastructure, operations, engineering and leadership teams. The role requires someone comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on level: able to advise on approach and direction, while remaining close to the technical detail. Candidates must also be willing and able to undergo DV clearance due to the nature of the programme and end-client environment. What We Are Looking For This role would suit a senior hands-on security engineer, infrastructure security engineer, network security engineer, platform security engineer, cyber security engineer, DevSecOps engineer or security-focused infrastructure specialist. You will need to be comfortable working onsite in Manchester, operating in a high-security environment and taking responsibility for security across critical systems. This is not a passive monitoring role. It requires someone who can own, improve and shape security across a critical platform while remaining close to the technology. xkybehq If you are an experienced Senior Security Engineer / Security Engineer with active SC clearance and strong experience across enterprise firewalling, secure infrastructure, Elastic / SIEM, VMware, Palo Alto, Cisco, Windows hardening and AWS / public cloud security, please apply for a confidential discussion. All the best, Charlie Syrett at Richmond Consulting Ltd