Senior Cyber Security Engineer
Contract: 12‑month fixed term, 37 hours per week with a minimum 20% office based.
Location: Portsmouth
Benefits
- 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- A productivity‑related bonus scheme to enhance your take‑home
- A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
- Life assurance paid at three times annual salary
- Private medical insurance
- Health care cash plan called Medicash
- Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Access to counselling, legal and financial information
- Electric car scheme
- Huge variety of in‑house & e‑learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes
Role Overview
As Senior Cyber Security Engineer you’ll play a critical role in protecting VIVID’s data and IT infrastructure. Reporting to the Cyber Security Manager, you’ll act as a technical expert and trusted advisor, leading on security operations, risk management and incident response. The role offers the opportunity to shape and enhance security practices across the organisation, ensuring systems, networks and data remain resilient against evolving cyber threats.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of monitoring and responding to security threats, conducting risk assessments and implementing robust security controls
- Design and maintain secure architectures, develop and enforce cyber security policies, and ensure all systems and projects adopt a security‑first approach
- Promote cyber awareness, contribute to employee training initiatives, and manage security incidents through to resolution
- Collaborate with external stakeholders, proactively manage vulnerabilities, and ensure systems are regularly patched and compliant with industry standards
- Conduct audits, support compliance and accreditation activities, manage supplier security risk, and contribute to the organisation’s cyber security roadmap
- Strengthen disaster recovery capabilities to ensure systems can be restored effectively and within agreed targets
Qualifications
- Proven experience in a similar senior cyber security role
- Strong user awareness and education background
- Experience implementing service improvements and managing IT risks with cloud suppliers
- Hands‑on experience with SIEM tools or managed SOC services, and with technologies such as intrusion detection, firewalls, anti‑virus, authentication systems and log management
- Solid knowledge of IT security, SIEM/SOC environments, Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Defender and cloud technologies
- Excellent skill in using technology to improve processes, strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities, and confident stakeholder relationship building and communication of complex security concepts
Interview Dates
Interviews are due to take place 4 and 6 August (subject to change).
Contact
Phone: 02392 896758Email: HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk
Equal Opportunity
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies. We’re a disability‑confident leader with disabled‑friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form. If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk.
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