Senior Cyber Engineer | Lead Security Tech, Hybrid, Bonus

Royal Mail Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Healthcare

Up to 18% annual bonus

Job summary

Royal Mail Group in London is seeking a Senior Cyber Engineer to lead the development and optimisation of security technologies and provide senior technical expertise across our security estate. This hybrid role is based in London Farringdon with three days on site per week.

You will work closely with security leaders and operations to ensure effective tool configuration, protection, and actionable security insights for Security Operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a security engineering role within a large, complex organisation.
• Experience deploying, maintaining and configuring a broad range of security technologies.
• In-depth knowledge across SIEM, DLP, firewalls, cloud security, intrusion prevention, threat intelligence and vulnerability scanning.
• Strong leadership, influencing and supplier management skills with good judgement for risk-based decisions.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills; able to explain security risks to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop key security technologies, ensuring Security Operations has reliable access to tools and information.
• Collaborate with security architects and technology operations teams to improve configurations and performance of security technologies.
• Lead technical activity to strengthen protection and logging across new and existing technologies.
• Act as a senior SME for security projects and transition them into BAU operations.
• Produce KPI and KRI reporting with recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Build relationships across technology teams and guide placement, maintenance and support of security tools.
• Lead and direct third-party suppliers to meet timescales and SLAs.
• Coach and develop engineers within the team.

Skills

Security leadership

Technical leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Decision making under pressure

Coaching engineers

Education

Degree in Computer Science/Cyber Security or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

DLP

Firewalls

Cloud security

Intrusion prevention

Threat intelligence

Vulnerability scanning

Job description

Royal Mail Group in London is seeking a Senior Cyber Engineer to lead the development and optimisation of security technologies and provide senior technical expertise across our security estate. This hybrid role is based in London Farringdon with three days on site per week.

You will work closely with security leaders and operations to ensure effective tool configuration, protection, and actionable security insights for Security Operations.