Cyber Security Engineer
Anson McCade · Birmingham, England ·
Overview
As a Cyber Security Engineer you will help design, implement, and improve security solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments to protect critical infrastructure and data. You will work with engineering, cloud, and security teams to embed best practices and strengthen controls, while identifying risk and maintaining compliance with security standards.
The role covers security tooling, monitoring, incident response, and threat intelligence, with hands‑on work across CI/CD, IaC, and cloud platforms. This is an opportunity to shape security strategy in a multi‑cloud, modern tech environment and contribute to a security‑driven engineering culture. You will engage with SOC processes,
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and manage cyber security tools, technologies and processes to protect infrastructure, applications and data.
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to embed security best practices across technology environments.
- Develop automation to enhance security operations, including SIEM data ingestion and tooling.
- Support firewall and network security management across cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments.
- Develop, maintain and enhance security policies, standards and procedures.
- Conduct infrastructure security assessments using recognised methodologies and tooling, including CIS Benchmarks.
- Contribute to vulnerability management, endpoint security, intrusion detection and prevention capabilities.
- Support security monitoring and incident response activities within SOC environments.
- Apply security principles across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, virtualised environments and IaC.
- Identify and mitigate emerging security risks, including AI and modern cloud technologies.
Key requirements
- Strong understanding of cyber security and platform engineering principles.
- Networking and cloud security experience across modern environments.
- Experience with CI/CD, virtualisation and IaC.
- Linux/WSL experience with scripting capability.
- Practical experience with SIEM and log management (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Cribl, ELK).
- Experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
- Scripting or programming with Python, Bash and/or PowerShell.
- Knowledge of IDS/IPS, vulnerability management and endpoint security.
- Experience with SOC environments and AI security concepts.
- collaboration
- communication
- problem-solving
- SIEM
- CIS Benchmarks
- Cloud security