Cyber Security Operations Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious opportunity for a Cyber Security Operations Engineer at a leading international organization based in Cardiff. Join a pioneering technology team in a hybrid role that promises ongoing career development and extensive training. You'll be pivotal in enhancing security measures, leading incident responses, and collaborating with partner teams to protect the organization’s security infrastructure. Candidates should possess strong operational security experience and practical skills in managing security tools.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Hybrid working model

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in an operational Security Operations Centre is crucial.
• Hands-on incident response experience is required.
• Familiarity with security log infrastructure and tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security investigations and incident responses.
• Monitor systems to support performance and reliability.
• Implement and manage security tools to mitigate threats.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Security Systems Monitoring

Security Automation

Communication

Tools

CrowdStrike

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

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Hays

Location:

cardiff, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

Prestigious opportunity for a Cyber Security Operations Engineer for an International market leading organisation. Following a period of significant growth and success, we are expanding the team in our Global Security Operations Centre and welcome your application! This is a hybrid role in a pioneering technology team, offering ongoing career development and training.

As one of our Cyber Security Operations Engineers, you will be responsible for:-

• Conducting security investigations and leading security incident responses, driving incident resolution
• Monitoring security systems and infrastructure to support the best performance and reliability
• Implementing and managing security tools and processes, to detect and mitigate threats
• Maintaining robust security feeds and ensuring data integrity
• Proactively looking for threats, working with level one analysts, affected teams and security vendors
• Identifying and implementing security process automation, continuously improving processes and tools
• Providing expertise to partnered security teams in the mitigation of threats
• Communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborating with partner security teams to bolster support of the organisation's security infrastructure

If you possess a combination of some of the following skills, then LETS TALK!

• Expertise in an operational Security Operations Centre
• Previous experience as a Cyber Security Operations Engineer
• Hands-on experience in an incident response role utilising CrowdStrike
• Experience developing and delivering on incident and program status
• Familiar with threat hunting, leveraging intelligence data to proactively find and iteratively investigate suspicious behaviour across networks and systems
• Experience analysing network and host-based security events
• System Administration with either Microsoft Windows or Linux
• Understanding CLI shells such as PowerShell or Bash
• Security Log infrastructure configuration such as Windows Event Forwarding (WEF) or syslog
• Knowledge of an interpreted language such as Python, Perl, or Ruby
• Operating systems, file systems, and memory structures on Windows, MacOS and Linux
• Knowledge of networking technologies, specifically TCP/IP and the related protocols
• Understanding of networks, operating systems, and architecture and how they affect the security of an organisation

In return, you will be rewarded with an enviable benefits package, hybrid working and ongoing career development.

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