Senior Security Engineer: Cloud, SIEM & PKI Lead (6-Month Contract)

Precise Placements; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Precise Placements is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a 6-month fixed-term contract to enhance our security monitoring and detection capabilities. The role requires hands-on engineering across IT security, cloud security and SIEM, with experience in Windows and Linux environments.

You will lead technical delivery, collaborate with IT, Development and business teams, and participate in incident management, with some out-of-hours work expected for planned changes and urgent responses.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on cyber security engineering across IT security, network security, systems engineering or comparable enterprise environments.
• Strong Microsoft, Azure, Microsoft 365, cloud security, network architecture and hybrid environment security knowledge.
• Proven ability to design, configure, implement and improve security technologies, controls, tooling and processes.
• Experience with SIEM technologies, security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, patch compliance, server security and endpoint security.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build and delivery of security controls supporting critical Change initiatives.
• Collaborate with IT, development and business teams to communicate risks and solutions.
• Participate in incident, change and problem management, including out-of-hours security response.

Skills

Cyber security engineering

IT security

Network security

Windows

Linux

PowerShell

Python

Security monitoring

Incident response

Security architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

CISSP/CEH/OSCP or similar certification

Job description

Precise Placements is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a 6-month fixed-term contract to enhance our security monitoring and detection capabilities. The role requires hands-on engineering across IT security, cloud security and SIEM, with experience in Windows and Linux environments.

You will lead technical delivery, collaborate with IT, Development and business teams, and participate in incident management, with some out-of-hours work expected for planned changes and urgent responses.