Cyber Security Specialist Permanent Location: Selby, London, Glasgow or Ipswich Hybrid working About the role: We’re looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join our Cyber Security Team in a pivotal role as we continue to strengthen Drax’s cyber resilience. As a Cyber Security Specialist, you’ll play a key role in protecting and strengthening our cyber security posture across IT and OT environments. You’ll work at the leading edge of cyber technology, continuously improving security controls through tooling optimisation, automation, and engineering best practice. The role combines hands‑on technical delivery with a strong secure‑by‑design mindset, ensuring emerging threats, technologies, and risks are translated into practical, effective security controls that support the business safely and at scale. Key areas of focus include: Accountable for defining and governing enterprise-wide security controls across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and OT environments. Ensuring appropriate monitoring coverage, logging standards, and operational visibility are in place to support SOC effectiveness and cyber risk reduction. Accountable for the end ‑ to ‑ end incident response technology, ensuring effective detection and response capabilities function correctly. You’ll provide senior technical oversight and decision ‑ making during high ‑ severity or complex incidents impacting IT and OT environments, including those affecting critical operations. Build, maintain and tune enterprise tooling including Defender XDR, SIEM/SOAR, Insider Threat protections, DLP, automation playbooks and detection logic. Contribute to improvements in monitoring coverage, false positive reduction and detection fidelity. Work collaboratively across departments, acting as a trusted security partner to projects, architecture and change teams. Who we are We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals. You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come. Who we’re looking for: To be successful in this role you’ll be able to demonstrate the following: Previous experience in cyber security operations or engineering. Knowledge and technical capability across Defender XDR, SIEM/SOAR, EDR/NDR, email/web security and vulnerability management. Knowledge of cloud security, hybrid infrastructure, Windows OS, networking and event analysis. Able to embrace change and continuously looks for ways to enhance system security, SOC efficiency and overall resilience. Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Understanding of the NIS regulatory framework and compliance requirements for Operators of Essential Services is highly desirable. Rewards and benefits: As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get: A discretionary bonus depending on company performance Private Healthcare SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time Personal accident cover Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10% Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays Reimbursement of the cost of your annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body We’re committed to making a tangible impact on the climate challenge we all face. Drax is where your individual purpose can work alongside your career drive. We work as part of a team that shares a passion for doing what’s right for the future. With Drax you can shape your career and a future for generations to come. Together, we make it happen. At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background. How to apply: Think this role’s for you? Click the ‘apply now’ button to begin your Drax journey! If you want to find out more about Drax, check out our LinkedIn page to see our latest news. We understand that you may have some additional questions about the role. If you’d like to have a confidential chat to discuss the role in more detail, please email careers@drax.com