- Company Name
- Leap29
- Job Title
- Cyber Security Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job Title:** Cyber Security Engineer
**Role Summary:**
Design, implement, and enhance security controls across a multi‑country enterprise environment. Lead threat monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management while collaborating with infrastructure, development, and business stakeholders to elevate the organization’s security posture.
**Expectations:**
- Deliver robust security solutions and maintain continuous improvement cycles.
- Respond to, contain, and recover from high‑severity incidents on an on‑call rota.
- Mentor teammates and promote security awareness organization‑wide.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Architect and deploy security controls (identity, endpoint, network, cloud).
- Develop and refine monitoring, alerting, and response playbooks; automate where feasible.
- Investigate alerts, conduct triage, containment, and remediation; coordinate recovery.
- Manage vulnerability scanning, prioritization, and remediation coordination.
- Draft and enforce security policies, standards, and best practices.
- Review suppliers, new systems, and technologies for security compliance.
- Participate in on‑call rotation for high‑severity incidents.
**Required Skills:**
- Hands‑on security engineering and operations experience in an enterprise.
- Incident response from triage to closure.
- Expertise in Identity & Access (Entra ID/Azure AD, MFA/SSO, Conditional Access, PAM), Zero Trust.
- Endpoint & email security (EDR/XDR, MDM, Mimecast, Darktrace Email).
- Cloud security (AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz).
- SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh, Splunk), alert tuning, KQL/SPL, MITRE ATT&CK.
- Network security fundamentals (firewalls, VPNs, web controls, NDR).
- Vulnerability management tools (Tenable, risk prioritization, remediation).
- Strong understanding of cyber threats, attacker techniques, and hardening practices.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent.
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer recommended.
Normanton, United kingdom
Hybrid
12-03-2026