Cyber security engineer

📍 Location: Wakefield – Hybrid (3 days per week on-site)

✈️ Travel: Occasional UK & European travel (full driving licence beneficial)

💰 Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience + on-call allowance


The Opportunity

An established European organisation is investing heavily in strengthening its cyber security capability and is building out a dedicated security function to protect its people, systems, data and brands.

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing and improving security controls across a large, multi-country environment. This is a hands‑on role that combines security engineering, monitoring, incident response and continuous security improvement.

You will work closely with infrastructure teams, developers and business stakeholders across multiple locations, helping to shape security tooling, processes and standards as the organisation continues to mature its security posture.


Key Responsibilities

* Design, implement and continuously improve security controls across the organisation.
* Improve monitoring and alerting capabilities, developing response playbooks and embedding automation where possible.
* Investigate and respond to escalated security alerts, supporting containment, remediation and recovery activities.
* Support vulnerability management, including scanning, prioritisation and coordinating remediation.
* Contribute to the development of security policies, standards and best practices.
* Participate in security reviews for new suppliers, systems and technologies.
* Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and help raise security awareness across the organisation.
* Participate in an on‑call rota for high‑severity security incidents (additional payment provided).


What We’re Looking For:

* Hands‑on experience in security engineering and/or security operations within an enterprise environment.
* Experience managing security incidents from triage through to recovery.
* Strong knowledge across several of the following areas:


Identity & Access Security

* MFA / SSO
* Conditional Access
* Privileged Access Management
* EDR/XDR platforms (e.g. SentinelOne, CrowdStrike)
* MDM solutions (e.g. Intune, WorkspaceONE)
* Email security platforms (e.g. Mimecast, Darktrace Email)
* Tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz
* Alert creation and tuning
* MITRE ATT&CK framework
* Query languages such as KQL or SPL


Network Security

* Firewalls, VPNs, web security controls
* Network detection and response tools


Vulnerability Management

* Scanning tools such as Tenable
* Risk prioritisation and remediation coordination
* Compliance reporting
* Strong understanding of common cyber threats, attacker techniques and security hardening practices.
* Experience in retail, distribution, warehousing or e-commerce environments
* Exposure to OT / IoT security
* Familiarity with ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and UK/EU regulatory requirements
* Understanding of secure development practices (SDLC, SAST/DAST, CI/CD security)
* Experience with data protection, classification or DLP tooling
* Additional European languages such as French, German or Italian


Why Apply?

* Opportunity to help shape a growing cyber security function
* Work across a large, international technology environment
* Exposure to modern security tooling and cloud security platforms
* Collaborate with teams across multiple countries
* Competitive salary and benefits with additional on-call allowance

Please APPLY by sending an updated copy of your CV to gday@leap29.com.

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