Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Senior Cyber Security Engineer required by our market leading, award-winning, professional services organisation based in Cirencester. This will be a hybrid role based on 1-2 days a week onsite with flexibility.

The successful Senior Cyber Security Engineer will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering cyber security across the wider organisation, through leading engineering projects, managing the existing tools and developing new capability.

The successful candidate will lead new security deployments, as well as be responsible for managing the existing tools and capabilities, working closely with operational teams to manage upgrades, on-going maintenance, and integration with other tools.

Main Responsibilities:

• Set the direction of security engineering for the business, defining your own strategy for delivery, and feeding into our clients broader Cyber Security Strategy for the business.
• Identify and set your own priorities, reviewing control and capability landscape and identifying opportunities for improvement and the selection of new technologies.
• Manage the existing security toolset (end to end), including technologies for vulnerability management, privileged account management, container security and security monitoring and alerting (SIEM).
• Develop integrations based on security operations requirements, leveraging existing tools and information sources for threat detection and analysis.
• Review products that can advance security capabilities, such as tools that support analysis, to detection capabilities and other emerging technologies.
• Act as the point of contact and expertise for projects, and other IT teams on security best practice, and day to day security engineering requirements.

Ideal Background:

• A background in cloud cyber security, primarily AWS (Azure experience is advantageous).
• Bachelor’s Degree or UK Level 6 Qualification in Computer Security
• Cloud Certifications (AWS Preferable)
• Experience working with one or more of the major (AWS/Azure/GCP) cloud environments, and deployment of the relevant security technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of SIEM and Data Analytics Platforms, from data ingestion through to management of the platforms and performance monitoring.
• Strong working Knowledge of the foundations of IT systems management, from Windows domain functions though to TCP/IP, OSI Model, DNS, DHCP, Routing, Load Balancing and VPNs.

This fantastic role comes with a basic salary of £60,000-65,000 p/a and is accompanied with a benefits package which includes a performance based, 20% annual bonus, BUPA PHC, 28 days holiday with bank holidays on top (With the option to buy/sell additional days), a 10% non-contributory pension (Which rises with length of employment), a share incentive plan and additional flexible benefits.