Cyber Security Engineer

Morson Talent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Insurance

25 days annual leave

Plus, more

Job summary

Morson Talent is seeking a Cyber Security Specialist to join a multi-disciplinary security team in Manchester. You will deliver threat detection and response, conduct vulnerability assessments, and maintain security tooling across Azure/AWS environments.

The role emphasizes automation, AI/ML capabilities, and close collaboration with internal teams and clients. You'll act as a technical escalation point, lead containment and remediation during incidents, and help raise the security posture.

Qualifications

• Strong technical expertise in security, network and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with secure Azure/AWS cloud environments and security tooling development.
• Knowledge of threat detection, incidents response and security best practices; Microsoft certifications and AI/ML qualifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Deliver threat detection and response across a client base.
• Act as escalation point for complex security incidents, leading containment and remediation.
• Develop and maintain security tooling and integrations; support AI-driven threat detection capabilities.
• Collaborate with internal teams and customers to ensure effective incident resolution and vulnerability compliance.

Skills

Security expertise

Cloud security

Security tooling development

DevOps practices

Threat detection & response

Communication & teamwork

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

As a Cyber Security Specialist, you will work within a multi-disciplinary security team delivering a broad range of services, including threat detection and response, vulnerability scanning, dark web monitoring, social engineering assessments, and security reporting. You will act as a technical escalation point for complex security incidents, leading containment and remediation activities while helping to maintain and enhance the security posture of a diverse client base.

The role also involves developing and maintaining security tooling and integrations, while supporting the adoption of AI-driven capabilities to improve threat detection and response. Working closely with internal teams and customers, you will ensure effective incident resolution and vulnerability compliance, while staying up to date with emerging threats, threat actors, attack techniques, and vulnerabilities. This role can offer 3 days remote working.

• Strong technical expertise in security, network, and infrastructure technologies, including experience with secure Azure/AWS cloud environments, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, and security tooling development.
• Proven ability to drive security automation and operational improvements using modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, with experience designing, building, and optimising security platforms.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, customer service, and problem-solving skills, combined with a proactive approach and knowledge of social engineering, phishing threats, and security best practices; relevant Microsoft certifications and AI/ML qualifications are advantageous.
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• 25 days annual leave
• Plus, more

Next Steps:

Due to the sensitive environments, where you will be based for this position, you will need to be able to pass security checks to be considered.