Cyber Security Engineer – Hybrid (Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra)

Firstcentral; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Home-based with optional office days

Job summary

1st Central is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join the Cyber and Information Security team. The role focuses on implementing, maintaining and improving security controls, telemetry and automation across the organisation.

It is predominantly home-based with one day a week in the office in Salford Quays, Haywards Heath or Guernsey, with flexibility to spend more time in the office. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across Microsoft security technologies, security engineering

Qualifications

• Cyber security engineering experience in security platform engineering or related field.
• Hands-on with Microsoft security technologies (Defender XDR, Purview, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Entra).
• Relevant technical security qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise across multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure and maintain cyber security controls across the Microsoft security estate.
• Develop and maintain security telemetry, data connectors and monitoring.
• Build and maintain security automation and SOAR playbooks and automated containment actions.
• Implement and maintain technical security policies, baselines and guardrails.
• Translate threat intelligence into effective technical controls and monitoring capabilities.
• Support security controls for end users, Azure workloads, cloud services and identities.
• Integrate security into DevOps and value-stream delivery with relevant tooling and telemetry.
• Contribute to AI defence capabilities and runtime security guardrails.
• Monitor health, coverage, and effectiveness of cyber security tooling and identify improvements.
• Provide technical support to cyber incident investigations and threat hunting.
• Remediate weaknesses with technology teams and verify corrective controls.
• Undertake cyber control reviews of third-party platforms and integrations.
• Maintain technical documentation and evidence relating to security platforms and controls.
• Assess proposed changes to tooling and identify risks and dependencies.
• Contribute to cyber metrics and reporting including coverage and automation effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

Skills

Cyber Security Engineering

Microsoft Security Technologies

Technical Security Expertise

Troubleshooting & Analysis

Communication & Stakeholder Management

Organisation & Prioritisation

Tools

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Entra

Purview

Job description

1st Central is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join the Cyber and Information Security team. The role focuses on implementing, maintaining and improving security controls, telemetry and automation across the organisation.

It is predominantly home-based with one day a week in the office in Salford Quays, Haywards Heath or Guernsey, with flexibility to spend more time in the office. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across Microsoft security technologies, security engineering