Cyber Security Engineer
Cyber Security Engineer
Location: Bristol (Hybrid)
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the organisation's security posture across network, cloud, and endpoint environments.
You'll take ownership of key security technologies, ensure effective monitoring and threat detection capabilities are in place, and support the response to cybersecurity incidents. This is a varied position offering exposure to cloud security, automation, security operations, infrastructure security, and security architecture initiatives.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence security decisions, contribute to strategic projects, and help drive continuous improvement across the cybersecurity function.
Key Responsibilities
Network & Infrastructure Security
Threat Detection & Security Monitoring
Cloud & Endpoint Security
Incident Response & Vulnerability Management
Security Automation & Improvement
Security Assurance
Essential Experience
Location: Bristol (Hybrid)
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the organisation's security posture across network, cloud, and endpoint environments.
You'll take ownership of key security technologies, ensure effective monitoring and threat detection capabilities are in place, and support the response to cybersecurity incidents. This is a varied position offering exposure to cloud security, automation, security operations, infrastructure security, and security architecture initiatives.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence security decisions, contribute to strategic projects, and help drive continuous improvement across the cybersecurity function.
Key Responsibilities
Network & Infrastructure Security
- Manage and maintain enterprise security technologies including Firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation, and secure remote access solutions.
- Ensure security controls remain compliant, effective, and aligned to industry best practice.
- Support the design and implementation of secure network architectures.
Threat Detection & Security Monitoring
- Continuously improve threat detection capabilities across the organisation.
- Work with security monitoring and incident response providers to optimise alerting, detection rules, and automated response activities.
- Ensure critical security logs are captured, monitored, and retained in line with compliance requirements.
Cloud & Endpoint Security
- Manage and enhance endpoint security platforms, including XDR and vulnerability management solutions.
- Secure cloud environments across AWS and Microsoft Azure.
- Implement security best practices relating to identity management, access controls, and cloud workloads.
Incident Response & Vulnerability Management
- Lead or support cyber incident investigations.
- Conduct root cause analysis and provide recommendations to prevent future incidents.
- Coordinate vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.
- Drive timely patching and hardening of network and endpoint devices.
Security Automation & Improvement
- Develop and maintain security automation solutions using technologies such as PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through automated security controls and monitoring.
- Contribute to the continuous development of security processes and standards.
Security Assurance
- Participate in secure design reviews for new applications, cloud deployments, and infrastructure projects.
- Support supplier security assessments and third-party risk reviews.
- Ensure security practices align with recognised frameworks and regulatory requirements.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience within a Cyber Security Engineer, Network Security Engineer, or Security Operations role.
- Strong understanding of networking and security technologies including Firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, XDR, endpoint security, and access controls.
- Experience designing and securing enterprise networks.
- Deep understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, segmentation, routing, and security architecture principles.
- Hands-on experience securing AWS and/or Microsoft Azure environments.
- Knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM), RBAC, Conditional Access, and Zero Trust principles.
- Experience supporting incident response and vulnerability management programmes.
- Familiarity with security frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and GDPR.
- Scripting or automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or similar technologies.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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