Cyber Security Specialist
Permanent
Location: Selby, London, Glasgow or Ipswich
Hybrid working
About the role:
We're looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join our Cyber Security Team in a pivotal role as we continue to strengthen Drax's cyber resilience. As a Cyber Security Specialist, you'll play a key role in protecting and strengthening our cyber security posture across IT and OT environments. You'll work at the leading edge of cyber technology, continuously improving security controls through tooling optimisation, automation, and engineering best practice. The role combines hands‑on technical delivery with a strong secure‑by‑design mindset, ensuring emerging threats, technologies, and risks are translated into practical, effective security controls that support the business safely and at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for defining and governing enterprise‑wide security controls across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and OT environments. Ensuring appropriate monitoring coverage, logging standards, and operational visibility are in place to support SOC effectiveness and cyber risk reduction.
- Accountable for the end‑to‑end incident response technology, ensuring effective detection and response capabilities function correctly. Provide senior technical oversight and decision‑making during high‑severity or complex incidents impacting IT and OT environments, including those affecting critical operations.
- Build, maintain and tune enterprise tooling including Defender XDR, SIEM/SOAR, Insider Threat protections, DLP, automation playbooks and detection logic. Contribute to improvements in monitoring coverage, false positive reduction and detection fidelity.
- Work collaboratively across departments, acting as a trusted security partner to projects, architecture and change teams.
Who we’re looking for:
- Previous experience in cyber security operations or engineering.
- Knowledge and technical capability across Defender XDR, SIEM/SOAR, EDR/NDR, email/web security and vulnerability management.
- Knowledge of cloud security, hybrid infrastructure, Windows OS, networking and event analysis.
- Able to embrace change and continuously look for ways to enhance system security, SOC efficiency and overall resilience.
- Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Understanding of the NIS regulatory framework and compliance requirements for Operators of Essential Services is highly desirable.
Rewards and benefits:
- As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get:
- A discretionary bonus depending on company performance.
- Private Healthcare.
- SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time.
- Personal accident cover.
- Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10%.
- Holiday – 25 days plus bank holidays.
- Reimbursement of the cost of the annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body.
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