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Cyber Security Engineer - Lead
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About the Role
We're recruiting for a Cyber Security Engineer Lead to play a key role in delivering complex cyber security engineering initiatives across enterprise environments. This is a hands-on position where you'll work across security operations, cloud security, detection engineering, vulnerability management, and cyber defence tooling, helping to design, implement, and enhance security capabilities while supporting long-term operational ownership.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with architects, infrastructure teams, suppliers, and security stakeholders to deliver high-quality project outcomes.
- Contribute to technology strategy and ensure security controls are embedded across both cloud and on-premises environments.
- Influence security tooling, frameworks, processes, and operating models while providing technical leadership and guidance to wider teams.
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Requirements
- Strong experience within a mature cyber security function.
- Expertise across technologies such as SIEM, EDR, DLP, CSPM/CNAPP, IDS/IPS, and vulnerability management platforms.
- Solid background in AWS and Azure security, network and infrastructure security, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/AWS CDK), container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience in scripting or programming languages including Python, Bash, C#, or Go.
- Experience in digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, digital forensics, and DevSecOps environments would be highly advantageous.
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Contract Details
- This contract will be inside IR35.
- Duration: 6 months.
- Onsite requirement: Up to two times a month.
Next Steps
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact across a large Critical National Infrastructure environment, working on a wide range of cybersecurity initiatives. It will provide you valuable exposure to complex systems and projects, enabling you to play a key part in strengthening security and resilience across the organisation.
To arrange a call to discuss this position in more detail, please apply or email your CV to Toby.Rodwell@morson.com.
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