Cyber Security Engineer
CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER
- Cyber Security Engineer position working on defence focused IT projects
- Flexible working but strong onsite presence and flexibility required
- Security Clearance eligibility requirements
- Salary up to £60,000 + Strong benefits and work culture
- Fantastic progression and growth opportunities
ABOUT THE CLIENT
A technology driven organisation delivering complex platforms across a secure environment, with innovation, research and engineering at the core of its work. The business continues to invest in its IT and cyber capabilities and is now hiring a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen its defence portfolio. This role is available due to continued programme growth and increased security demands across the organisation.
THE BENEFITS
- Salary up to £60,000
- Large employee pension
- Private medical insurance
- Not for profit organisation
- Professional development and training
- Supportive team culture
- Security Clearance provided
THE CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER ROLE
You will take a consultative and hands on role across a range of IT projects within a defence environment, ensuring that platforms and services are designed, built and maintained securely. Working with Microsoft technologies across hybrid and on site environments, you will embed security controls, conduct risk assessments, contribute to threat intelligence activities and support the implementation of monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities. The role also includes producing security documentation, performing configuration assessments, supporting incident response and collaborating closely with infrastructure, operations and project teams.
CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Experience as a Cyber Security or IT Infrastructure Security specialist
- Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft based environments across on site and cloud
- Understanding of network security principles including segmentation, firewalls and secure remote access
- Knowledge of IAM, MFA, RBAC and conditional access
- Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks including NIST, CIS Controls, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
- Experience aligning infrastructure builds to recognised security baselines and NCSC guidance
- Experience with monitoring, logging, SIEM and threat detection tooling
- Understanding of encryption, data classification and secure storage principles
- Familiarity with vulnerability management tools and endpoint security platforms
- Experience with hybrid identity and federated authentication
- Understanding of security automation, SOAR and scripting for task automation
TO BE CONSIDERED:
Please either apply through this advert or email me directly via kelly.harvey@searchability.com. For further information please call me on 0203 854 0120 or 07889 589 648. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.
KEY SKILLS
Cyber Security Engineer, IT Infrastructure Security, Microsoft Security, IAM, SIEM, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Network Security, SOAR, Defence, NSD