Hybrid Cyber Security Engineer - Cloud & Threat Response

Red Snapper Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days annual leave

Birthday leave

Health cash plan

Flexible benefits pot

Funding for professionalQualifications

Job summary

Red Snapper Recruitment seeks a Cyber Security Engineer to join the ICT & Digital Transformation team of a leading housing organisation. You will provide hands-on security engineering across monitoring, threat detection and incident response while embedding security best practice.

The role operates within the Cloud Infrastructure and Security team, with hybrid working and regular office attendance, and a base salary of £56,939 per annum. Regular travel to North East offices is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cyber security or security engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security technologies: firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, SIEM, Defender, vulnerability tools.
• Experience in security incident detection, response and recovery.
• Cloud experience, ideally Microsoft Azure.
• Ability to communicate security risks and impacts to diverse stakeholders.
• Calm under pressure and able to build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across security monitoring, threat detection and incident response.
• Lead vulnerability management, patching and endpoint security improvements.
• Support detection, investigation, response and recovery of security incidents.
• Influence secure network, cloud and endpoint design across projects.
• Work with ICT and external partners to implement security controls.
• Support cyber security governance, reporting, audits and compliance.

Skills

Cyber security engineering

Threat detection

Incident response

Azure cloud

Security governance

Education

Microsoft SC-200

Microsoft SC-300

Microsoft AZ-500

Microsoft SC-100

ISC2 SSCP

CCSP

CISSP

Tools

Firewalls

IDS/IPS

EDR

SIEM

Microsoft Defender

Vulnerability management tools

Azure

Job description

Red Snapper Recruitment seeks a Cyber Security Engineer to join the ICT & Digital Transformation team of a leading housing organisation. You will provide hands-on security engineering across monitoring, threat detection and incident response while embedding security best practice.

The role operates within the Cloud Infrastructure and Security team, with hybrid working and regular office attendance, and a base salary of £56,939 per annum. Regular travel to North East offices is expected.