Cyber Security Engineer — Cloud, SIEM & Threat Intelligence

Accenture UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

25 days vacation per year

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join our Security Engineering team across London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol or Leeds. You will design, implement and manage security tooling and controls to protect infrastructure, applications and data, while partnering with other engineering teams to embed best practices.

You will gain exposure to cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, work with SIEM solutions (Splunk/ELK), and contribute to security policy development, threat

Qualifications

• Core concepts of cyber security and platform engineering including networking, Cloud security, CI/CD pipelines, virtualization and IaC.
• Scripting or programming in Linux environments (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with SIEM/log routing in Splunk, Sentinel, Cribl, ELK, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage security tools, systems, and processes to protect infrastructure, applications, and data.
• Partner with other engineering and security teams to embed security best practices.
• Automation to support security tooling like SIEM log ingestion.
• Firewall and network management within hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
• Develop and maintain security policies, standards and procedures.
• Conduct security assessments using CIS benchmarks and other tooling.
• Contribute to the development of the Security Engineering practice.
• People management and training of direct reports.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

SIEM

Scripting

Tools

Splunk

ELK

Cribl

AWS

Azure

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join our Security Engineering team across London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol or Leeds. You will design, implement and manage security tooling and controls to protect infrastructure, applications and data, while partnering with other engineering teams to embed best practices.

You will gain exposure to cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, work with SIEM solutions (Splunk/ELK), and contribute to security policy development, threat