Security Engineer

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident Employer

Hybrid working

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Security Engineer as part of the Security Engineering Team in the UK. The role focuses on IT service management, incident response, and maintaining security tooling across SIEM, IDPS, and malware protection.

You will operate across client sites, Capgemini offices, and home, with on-call and out-of-hours responsibilities. You will work to keep client infrastructures secure, respond to health alerts, and continuously tune security policies and features in collaboration with

Qualifications

• Understanding of IT service environments, IT service desk and IT operations procedures.
• Experience working in IT outsourcing environments and aptitude to learn new technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Client engagement, time management and expectation management.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Proficient in IT Service Management principles handling incidents and service requests to meet client SLA’s/OLA’s.
• Ensure integrity of client IT infrastructures and participate in on-call/out of hours coverage.
• Maintain and tune Security Toolkit Infrastructure, including SIEM, IDPS, GVM and Malware Protection.
• Record and respond to health alerts from security infrastructure.
• Learn to tune policies and enhancements in response to security incidents.

Skills

ITSM

Incident Response

Security Toolkit

SIEM

IDPS

GVM

Malware Protection

Communication

Client Engagement

Tools

SIEM

IDPS

GVM

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

Engineers form part of the Security Engineering Team (SET), an expanding team who deliver specific IT Security Services to a client in the Aerospace industry. The team has a footprint in two main sites in Derby, to affectively provide services to the client. The team members are not fixed to one location, which lends itself to interesting and diverse work within differing environments. The role is focused in three main areas for Security Engineering and Operational activity:

• Run Activity – Monitoring and acting as required on the health of various Security tools.
• Incident Response – responding with appropriate actions as required regarding tooling within the remit of the SET.
• Triaging requests incoming to the Engineering Team mailbox and Service Management intake queue, ensuring ownership within the wider team is appropriately assigned and requests have ownership.

Hybrid working

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your role

• Proficient in IT Service Management principles handling incidents and service requests to meet client SLA’s/OLA’s.
• You will be responsible for ensuring the integrity of client IT infrastructures and follow core IT Service Management Principles. This includes on-call and out of hours coverage.
• You will keep the lights green on all Security Toolkit Infrastructure within our remit and support various toolsets including SIEM, IDPS, GVM and Malware Protection.
• You will record and respond to health alerts from the Security Infrastructure we maintain.
• You will learn how to tune and enable polices, features and enhancements as required in response to Security Incidents and general enhancements requested by the client.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your Skills And Experience

• An understanding of IT service environments, IT service desk and IT operations procedures.
• Experience working in an IT outsourcing environment and aptitude to learn new technologies.
• You will provide excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Client engagement skills, time management, expectation management etc.
• Ability to keep calm and perform under pressurised situations.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini Is Proud To Be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) Under The UK Government’s Disability Confident Scheme. As Part Of Our Commitment To Inclusive Recruitment, We Will Offer An Interview To All Candidates Who

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance and pre-employment checks

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Flexibility to work your way

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.

To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Shape your path

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Shared energy

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why should you consider Capgemini?

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com