Cyber Security Engineer

PeopleGenius; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing FinTech company is offering a full-time, permanent position for a Security Engineer based in the UK, with responsibilities spanning operational security and compliance management. The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience in cyber security, identity management, and cloud solutions security, with a preference for backgrounds in Financial Services or similar sectors. This role requires occasional in-office meetings in West Yorkshire or Oxford, and flexibility in working hours, potentially including early starts and late finishes.

Benefits

Competitive benefits and bonuses

Career growth opportunities

Work-life balance

Qualifications

• Accomplished Security Engineer with experience in the UK.
• Flexible working hours; adaptability to different schedules.
• Experience in the security aspects of cloud applications.

Responsibilities

• Maintain operational security across UK subsidiaries.
• Ensure compliance with local jurisdictional requirements.
• Manage incidents and escalations effectively.

Skills

Experience in Cyber Security

Identity and Access Management

Cloud Solutions Security

VPN and Firewall Management

Remote Laptop Protection

Tools

Palo Alto Cortex ERD

Palo Alto Global Protect VPN

Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Firewall

Job description

THIS IS A FULL TIME PERMANENT ROLE, REMOTE THOUGH TEAM MEETINGS ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH IN EITHER WEST YORKSHIRE OR OXFORD - WE'LL NEED CANDIDATES TO BE UK-BASED AND YOU'LL HAVE TO PASS VETTING - DBS AND CREDIT DUE TO THIS BEING A REGULATED BUSINESS.

The Client

FinTech, Global Market-changing, proven quantity expanding globally. You won't have heard of them yet, though they'll be a household name in a few years. Benefits, Bonsuses, work / life balance are unrivalled - though this isn't for the feint of heart, an established Business in growth phase and a true Unicorn.

The Role

The Security Engineer will provide hands-on technical expertise within the UK, ensuring that cyber security strategy and architecture defined by Group are implemented effectively across UK subsidiaries, aligned with local jurisdictional compliance requirements. This role bridges between Group Security, outsourced partners, and UK subsidiaries (~5 entities in total), ensuring successful delivery of projects, uplift initiatives, and BAU operational excellence. This position will own UK technical approvals, impact assessments, and project‑specific security delivery, acting as the local escalation point for incidents and implementations.

Snippet of your day to day (not exhaustive nor are any two the same!)

• Maintenance and Operational Security
• Control Effectiveness
• Patch & Vulnerability Management
• Configuration Management
• Tool, Infrastructure, and Encryption Management - maintenance and optimisation of
• VPN, Network & Firewall Security
• Endpoint Security
• DevSecOps & Application Security
• Monitoring, Threat Management & Incident Response
• Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement

You

We don't have room for shrinking violets - you'll be smart, outgoing, bright - on an upwards trajectory career wise and hungry to make a name for yourself. This name will look fantastic on your CV. You'll be surrounded by some highly cerebral and motivated colleagues.

Qualifications

• You’ll be an accomplished Security Engineer with experience from the UK
• Industry agnostic though preference would be Financial Services, Legal, Consulting or similar
• Experience in the practical protection of a remote working laptop estate and SaaS cloud solutions.
• Experience in identity and access management solutions.
• Experience in device business automation and updates.
• Experience in the security aspects of cloud web application hosting and defence measures like WAF
• You’ll also be flexible in terms of working hours - sometimes there'll be early starts and sometimes later finishes due to the parent company being abroad

Stack – you don’t need them all

• Palo Alto Cortex ERD
• Palo Alto Global Protect VPN
• Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Firewall
• Nucleus vulnerability management
• Airlocker application whitelisting
• Trend Micro and Abnormal email security
• OKTA / Entra IDAM

Call any of the team at PeopleGenius for more information - A full role profile is always available for relevant Candidates. For this role you’ll be credit and DBS checked, therefore you’ll need to be a UK Resident with a relevant skills set and be willing to work from West Yorkshire or London / Oxfordshire, be happy to attend the office a few times a month AND be willing to work the odd early morning / late night.

As aforementioned, this client is a career maker. We love working with them and have done since day dot. The interview process will be 3 x fold and we can expedite for the right people.

We’d like to have an initial teams / zoom with those selected.

Keywords : Security Engineer, Cyber Security Engineer, Information Security Engineer, Palo Alto, SOC, SOC 2, ISO27001, CIS, SAST, DAST, VPN, Vulnerability, Pen Testing, InfoSec, CyberSec,