Senior Cyber Engineer

Element Materials Technology Ltd.; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in testing and certification is seeking a Senior Cyber Engineer to design secure solutions and protect against cyber threats. The role involves collaboration on security tooling and infrastructure management, ensuring a robust defense against potential attacks. Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in security domains and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Strong subject matter expertise in security domains.
• Experience as a Cyber Security Engineer or related roles.
• Comfortable with proactive communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement technical solutions for security vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate on the management of security operations tooling.
• Create detection rules to identify suspicious activities.

Skills

Platform Protection

Network Architecture

Cloud Security

Communication

Security Principles

Tools

NDR

EDR

SIEM

Azure

AWS

Job description

Overview

Element has an opportunity for a Senior Cyber Engineer to become part of our growing Cyber Engineering Services.

A successful candidate for the Cyber Engineer role will possess a solid foundation as a security engineer, responsible for ensuring the security of complex global environments and designing security solutions at scale. This includes extensive expertise in application, cloud, and infrastructure domains.

In this hybrid role you will design and implement highly secure technical solutions to protect against cyber threats and potential cyber-attacks. The role will be focused on detection engineering within the strategic Element security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and implementation of technical solutions and security toolsets to address security vulnerabilities, mitigate cyber threats, and automate tasks.
• Contribute to the planning, implementation, and management of the security operations tooling roadmap.
• Collaborate on the engineering, implementation, management, monitoring, and upgrades of cyber security infrastructure and technologies.
• Create and maintain detection rules and logic to identify suspicious activity and potential security threats.
• Participate in the creation, implementation, and optimisation of SIEM event correlation rules, logic, and content to filter out security events associated with known network behaviour, false positives, and errors.
• Support the transition of project deliverables into operational service.
• Contribute to the development of technical solutions and new security toolsets for vulnerability mitigation and task automation.
• Ensure up-to-date and adherence to design documentation and procedures.
• Conduct regular security checks and assist with troubleshooting efforts.
• Prepare and maintain standard operating procedures and protocols.
• Collaborate closely with the Cyber Defence team to uphold enterprise defence practices, guidelines, and procedures.
• Provide support for incident response efforts as needed.
• Assist with operational and management reporting produced by the team.

Skills / Qualifications

• A highly self-motivated individual with positive mindset & can-do attitude, and a strong believer of “Security as an enabler” to support business growth
• Exhibits strong intellectual agility, with the ability to apply it effectively in a wide range of business contexts.
• Strong subject matter expertise in at least one of the following security domains: Platform Protection; Network Architecture; Cloud Security
• Shows confident ability to provide input for/and the review of designs, reports, procedures, and standards.
• Must possess strong communicative skills and the ability to translate technical findings to a non-technical audience;
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and trends.
• Experience in working with networking in a complex multi-site environment ideally including multinational connectivity;
• Experience with various security technologies such as NDR/content filtering/FW/IPS/IDS/DDOS, EDR/MDR, DAST/SAST, Identity Access Management, SIEM & SOAR, log management.
• Preferable experience in Azure, AWS, Defender, Darktrace.
• Experience and technical knowledge in multiple areas of cyber defence operations.
• Experience as a Cyber Security Engineer; previous experience as a Network or Server Engineer could be beneficial.
• Experience in working internationally and multi-culturally;
• Comfortable with proactive communication and interaction with staff at different levels.
• Experience or interest in working within a complex, highly federated organisation would be advantageous
• Experience or interest in infrastructure and application support and development would be beneficial.

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Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.