Cyber or Security Engineer

Cyber Security Engineer

Security Clearance Required - DV ('Developed Vetting'). Location: Huntingdon, UK (On site 4/5 days a week).

We are searching for multiple Cyber Security Engineers with varying technical backgrounds to work at our customer site in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire with occasional travel to other UK sites. The role involves working within a team of engineers to maintain a strong cyber security posture for classified and unclassified networks. Cyber Security Engineers provide operational and engineering support.

Position Tasks

• Develop creative solutions to complex technical issues and problems.
• Work with the engineering teams to ensure systems remain at the required security posture against baseline requirements.
• Work with the Security Monitoring engineering team to ensure logs are forwarded to the SIEM capability.
• Work with the customer and appropriate agencies to develop new policies, design processes, and procedures, and develop technical designs.
• Assess system vulnerabilities, implement risk mitigation strategies, validate secure systems, and test security products and systems to detect security weaknesses.
• Maintain and support security enforcing functions.

Core Skills

• Experience working in MOD or Home Office project environments.
• Strong knowledge of network and system security, including firewalls, IDS/IPS, micro segmentation, and host security.
• Hands on experience with the following security products: Trellix, Ivanti, ClearSwift, Yubikey.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25).
• Expertise in identity and access management (IAM), including RBAC, ABAC, JWT and cookie based authentication.
• Incident detection and response in MOD environments.
• Security compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
• Experience working with Kubernetes at an administrative level.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Effective communication with development, operations, and security teams.
• Ability to advocate for security best practices in a DevOps culture.

Desirable Skills - Containerisation Security

• Expertise in Kubernetes security (e.g., RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets management).
• Knowledge of container runtime security (e.g., container escapes, rootless containers, sandboxing).
• Image security best practices, including scanning, signing, and provenance verification.
• Secure deployment patterns using Tanzu & Kubernetes.
• Runtime security monitoring.

Desirable Skills - DevSecOps & CI/CD Security

• Secure CI/CD pipeline design with security testing using tools such as Git and SonarQube.
• Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Secrets management in CI/CD pipelines using Vault or Kubernetes Secrets.
• Security automation and policy enforcement using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.

Desirable Skills - Cloud & Infrastructure Security

• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles in a containerised environment.
• Kubernetes security posture management (KSPM) using tools such as Trivy.
• Secure ingress/egress controls, service mesh security (e.g., Istio).
• Encryption strategies for data at rest, in transit, and in use.
• Network security best practices for Tanzu container networking (e.g., NSX, Rancher).
• Compliance monitoring and security auditing for cloud native environments.

Desirable Skills - Automation & Scripting

• Scripting skills in Python, PowerShell for security automation.
• API security knowledge (e.g., OAuth, JWT, API gateways, rate limiting).
• Experience with Security as Code for automated policy enforcement.

Benefits

We offer a competitive employment package that supports your career goals, including:

• Contributory Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays).
• Access to flexible benefits (life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays, cycle to work scheme).
• Flexible working arrangements.

Commitment to Diversity

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and provide equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.