- Location: London or Sheffield (Hybrid - 2 days a week onsite)
- Job Type: Contract
We are seeking an experienced Cyber Engineer to join a prestigious UK‑based organisation with a rich history spanning over 500 years. This role involves providing deep technical expertise in Microsoft Sentinel, Azure security infrastructure, networking, and security tooling. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in stabilising, improving, and standardising security operations.
Day‑to‑day of the role:
- Design, implement, and support Microsoft Sentinel infrastructure, including workspaces, data connectors, analytics rules, automation, and workbooks.
- Engineer and maintain Azure security controls across core services, supporting secure cloud operations at enterprise scale.
- Implement, enhance, and maintain security tooling to improve detection, monitoring, and response capabilities.
- Design, deliver, and support certificate automation solutions, including lifecycle management and operational processes.
- Work closely with networking teams to support secure architectures, traffic flows, segmentation, and connectivity patterns.
- Actively support and participate in change approval processes, ensuring security requirements are met without impacting delivery timelines.
- Provide senior‑level support for BAU security engineering activities, ensuring stability and resilience of security platforms.
- Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and incidents across cyber tooling and infrastructure.
- Mentor and support junior cyber engineers, progressively enabling them to take ownership of BAU tasks.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Sentinel, including infrastructure and configuration.
- Solid Azure platform experience, particularly from a security and infrastructure standpoint.
- Strong networking background, including understanding of network security principles, firewalls, VPNs, routing, and segmentation.
- Experience with a range of security tools (SIEM, monitoring, detection, and response platforms).
- Proven experience delivering and supporting certificate automation.
- Experience operating in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Comfortable working across project delivery, change processes, and BAU support.
- Confident making pragmatic, risk‑based security decisions.
- Experience working alongside SOC or security operations teams.
- Scripting or automation experience (e.g., PowerShell, Python).
- Exposure to DevSecOps or Infrastructure‑as‑Code.
- Experience supporting third‑party vendors or managed security services.
Personal Attributes:
- Pragmatic, delivery‑focused approach to security engineering.
- Comfortable acting as a senior point of reference across security, change, and delivery.
- Able to clearly explain technical decisions and trade‑offs to engineers and stakeholders.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
To apply for this Cyber Engineer position, please submit your CV detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this role.
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