Cyber Security Engineer: Azure Defender & Flexible Work

Wales & West Utilities Limited; Newport; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension with Aviva (5% employee, 10%+2

Annual bonus

Job summary

Wales & West Utilities Limited is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Cyber Resilience team. The role focuses on delivering enterprise-wide cyber security, including threat monitoring, vulnerable management, identity and access controls, and security governance across IT, cloud, and OT environments.

You will lead secure Azure implementations, configure Entra ID, and act as SME on security technologies while engaging with governance boards and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender Suite (Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud).
• Experience with Microsoft Purview for information protection and Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM/SOC.
• Strong knowledge of Azure environments, policies, controls and governance structures.
• Strong technical knowledge of Azure services and architecture (networking, identity, storage, compute).
• Ability to analyze problems, identify root causes and propose risk-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Enhance threat monitoring, detection and incident response capabilities.
• Own the implementation and ongoing improvement of the cyber security estate across assets.
• Administer and secure Microsoft Entra ID including Conditional Access, Identity Protection and PAM.
• Act as SME for security technologies and represent Cyber Technology at governance forums.

Skills

Defender Suite

Purview

Sentinel

IAM & PAM

Azure governance

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Entra

PAM

Job description

Wales & West Utilities Limited is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Cyber Resilience team. The role focuses on delivering enterprise-wide cyber security, including threat monitoring, vulnerable management, identity and access controls, and security governance across IT, cloud, and OT environments.

You will lead secure Azure implementations, configure Entra ID, and act as SME on security technologies while engaging with governance boards and stakeholders.