Average Security Engineer salary in City of London

Solutions Engineer (Cyber Security)London EC3R / HybridUp to £45,000 (DOE)We’re a managed IT services provider for the creative industry, supporting 5,000+ users across 100+ businesses. We’re looking for a Solutions Engineer with strong cyber security expertise to help protect and improve our clients’ IT environments.You’ll take a hands-on role in designing, implementing, and managing security solutions, working across network, endpoint, and cloud platforms. This is a client-facing position where you’ll provide expert guidance, respond to security incidents, and help drive best practice across all client systems.Key responsibilities:Design, implement, and maintain security solutions including firewalls, endpoint protection, and cloud security servicesLead and support incident response, investigation, containment, and remediationConduct vulnerability assessments and risk reviews, recommending and deploying improvementsImplement and manage security monitoring and reporting toolsAdvise clients on cyber security best practices, policies, and compliance requirementsWork closely with internal engineering teams and support junior engineersKey experience & skills:Proven experience in an IT solutions, service desk or engineer role Strong knowledge of network security, firewalls, EDR, and SIEM toolsExperience securing Microsoft Azure and/or AWS environmentsHands-on endpoint security experience (Defender, Sophos, Bitdefender or similar)Understanding of Cyber Essentials / Cyber Essentials Plus and security frameworks Confident communicator, comfortable working directly with clientsWhat we offer:Hybrid working with flexible remote days22–25 days holiday + bank holidaysLearning and development supportFunded social events, staff awards, and rewards

IT Security & Resilience Specialist – Permanent, London (Hybrid)Our client, a global law firm, is seeking an experienced IT Security & Resilience Specialist to join their IT Infrastructure Engineering team. This is a hands-on, process-driven role focused on ensuring disaster recovery, failover, and operational resilience capabilities are robust, tested, and continuously improved.Key Responsibilities:Plan and execute DR and resilience tests, capture evidence, and report findings.Maintain and improve DR runbooks, procedures, and documentation.Collaborate with Cyber Security, BCP, and Infrastructure teams to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities.Automate testing and evidence collection using scripting or orchestration tools.Produce clear technical updates and dashboards for stakeholders.Candidate Profile:Hands-on experience in disaster recovery, failover testing, and operational resilience.Solid understanding of ISO27001, ISO22301, NIST frameworks, and control evidence.Experience with hyperconverged and hybrid cloud infrastructure (Nutanix, VMware, Commvault, Azure).Skilled in scripting (PowerShell or Python) and infrastructure tooling.Knowledge of vulnerability management, monitoring, and automation platforms.Relevant certifications such as SC-200, CEH, CBCP/CBCI desirable.Why Join:Join a global, high-performing technology team.Take ownership of resilience and security initiatives impacting key IT systems.Hybrid working (3 days per week on site) Ready to take the next step? Apply now and be part of a team driving operational excellence.

We’re looking for an AWS Security Engineer for our client in the data sector, based in London, on an initial 3 to 6 month contract paying up to £500 per day Outside IR35.This role offers hybrid working with an expectation to attend the office 3 days per week.You will focus on hands-on remediation of cloud and application vulnerabilities across AWS environments. The position involves working closely with Developers, Data Engineers and the AWS Security Lead to validate findings, prioritise risk, implement secure fixes, and strengthen AWS security controls. This is a delivery-focused role where you will own issues end to end.The successful AWS Security Engineer will have experience with:Deep, hands-on AWS security across IAM, networking, compute, storage and serverlessAWS security controls including IAM least privilege, VPC segmentation, private endpoints, WAF/Shield, KMS, secrets management and loggingOperating AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config and Access AnalyzerVulnerability remediation across OS/packages, containers, libraries, serverless runtimes and cloud misconfigurationsCI/CD and DevSecOps practices including shift-left reviews, dependency management and pipeline guardrailsInfrastructure as Code security using Terraform and/or CloudFormationPython or Bash automation to streamline remediation and control validationWorking with common scanning tools such as Inspector, Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot or Prisma/TenableNice to have: AWS Security Specialty, Solutions Architect, container/serverless security experience, or policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Conftest.Interested?Please apply below.AWS Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Vulnerability Remediation, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM Security, VPC Security, KMS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD Security, Python, Container Security, London, Hybrid