Cyber Security Engineer

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Cardiff; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 10% discretionary bonus

Flexible working arrangements

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 15%

Life assurance

Retail discounts and cashback schemes

Company sick pay

Enhanced family leave policies

Annual salary review

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment Ltd is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer for a Remote/South Wales area role. You will design, implement and continuously improve security controls across Microsoft technologies and cloud platforms, with hands-on delivery in Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID and Azure environments.

You will collaborate with infrastructure and cloud teams to embed security into new and existing solutions, while guiding stakeholders on risk and security maturity within a growing cyber function.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Security Engineering or Security Infrastructure role.
• Hands-on Microsoft Defender and Sentinel experience.
• Experience securing Azure production environments.
• Understanding of Entra ID security and identity governance.
• Experience with vulnerability management programs.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and articulate risk.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and optimise Defender and Sentinel capabilities across the estate.
• Design and implement security controls within Azure environments.
• Lead improvements across Entra ID security and Privileged Identity Management.
• Drive vulnerability management activities, remediation planning and risk reduction initiatives.
• Implement and maintain data protection and information governance with Microsoft Purview.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud and project teams to embed security into solutions.
• Contribute to incident response activities and detection improvements.
• Provide technical security guidance to stakeholders.
• Support compliance against security frameworks including NCSC CAF, ISO27001, NIST CSF and CIS Controls.

Skills

Security engineering

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Azure

Entra ID

Conditional Access

Vulnerability management tooling

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Cyber Security Engineer | Remote / South Wales Area | £72,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

We're supporting a well-established organisation as they continue to strengthen their cyber resilience capabilities across a complex Microsoft-centric technology estate.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building, improving and securing modern enterprise environments. You'll play a key part in enhancing security controls, improving identity and access management, strengthening cloud security and reducing organisational risk through proactive security engineering.

This is not a traditional SOC position. Whilst you'll contribute to threat detection and incident response activities, the focus of the role is designing, implementing and continuously improving security controls across Microsoft technologies and cloud platforms.

What You'll Do

• Enhance and optimise Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel capabilities across the estate
• Design and implement security controls within Azure environments
• Lead improvements across Entra ID security, Conditional Access, Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management
• Drive vulnerability management activities, remediation planning and risk reduction initiatives
• Implement and maintain data protection and information governance controls using Microsoft Purview
• Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and project teams to embed security into new and existing technology solutions
• Contribute to incident response activities and ongoing improvements to detection capabilities
• Provide technical security guidance to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support compliance against recognised security frameworks including NCSC CAF, ISO27001, NIST CSF and CIS Controls

What You'll Bring

We're particularly interested in speaking with Security Engineers who have experience implementing and improving security controls rather than purely operating security tools.

You'll likely have:

• Experience in a Security Engineering, Cyber Engineering or Security Infrastructure position
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel
• Experience securing Azure environments in production enterprise settings
• Good understanding of Entra ID security, Conditional Access and identity governance
• Practical experience of vulnerability management and remediation programmes
• Experience working with security frameworks and technical control implementation
• The ability to influence stakeholders and articulate security risk effectively

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to join a growing cyber function where you'll have genuine influence over security strategy, tooling and control maturity.

Rather than simply operating existing processes, you'll help shape how security is delivered across the organisation, working on a broad range of cloud, identity, data protection and resilience initiatives.

Benefits

• Up to 10% discretionary bonus
• Flexible working arrangements
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension contribution of up to 15%
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Annual salary review
• Retail discounts and cashback schemes
• Company sick pay