Cyber Security Engineer - Lead

Morson Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Morson Talent is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer Lead to deliver complex cyber security initiatives across enterprise environments. This hands-on role covers security operations, cloud security, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and cyber defence tooling, enabling security controls in both cloud and on-premises environments.

You will influence tooling, frameworks and operating models while guiding wider teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering cyber security engineering initiatives across enterprise environments.
• Hands-on with cloud and on-prem security, implementing security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and enhance security capabilities across complex environments.
• Provide technical leadership to security and engineering teams and governance stakeholders.

Skills

SIEM

EDR

DLP

CSPM/CNAPP

IDS/IPS

AWS security

Azure security

Terraform/AWS CDK

Python

Bash

C#

Go

Digital forensics

Incident response

Threat hunting

DevSecOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform/AWS CDK

AWS

Azure

Python

Bash

C#

Go

EDR tooling

Job description

Were recruiting for a Cyber Security Engineer Lead to play a key role in delivering complex cyber security engineering initiatives across enterprise environments. This is a hands-on position where youll work across security operations, cloud security, detection engineering, vulnerability management and cyber defence tooling, helping to design, implement and enhance security capabilities while supporting long-term operational ownership. Youll collaborate closely with architects, infrastructure teams, suppliers and security stakeholders to deliver high-quality project outcomes, contribute to technology strategy and ensure security controls are embedded across both cloud and on-premises environments. The role offers the opportunity to influence security tooling, frameworks, processes and operating models while providing technical leadership and guidance to wider teams. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience within a mature cyber security function, with expertise across technologies such as SIEM, EDR, DLP, CSPM/CNAPP, IDS/IPS and vulnerability management platforms. Youll have a solid background in AWS and Azure security, network and infrastructure security, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/AWS CDK), container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and scripting or programming languages including Python, Bash, C# or Go. Experience in digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, digital forensics and DevSecOps environments would be highly advantageous.

This contract will be inside IR35, for a 6 month duration and require you to be onsite up to two times a month.

Next Steps:

This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a large Critical National Infrastructure environment, working on a wide range of cybersecurity initiatives. It will provide you valuable exposure to complex systems and projects, enabling you to play a key part in strengthening security and resilience across the organisation.