Cyber Security Engineer
📍Location: Wakefield – Hybrid (3 days per week on-site)
✈️Travel: Occasional UK & European travel (full driving licence beneficial)
💼Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
💰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 aCyber 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 combinessecurity engineering, monitoring, incident response and continuous security improvement.
You will work closely withinfrastructure 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 improvesecurity controls across the organisation.
* Improvemonitoring and alerting capabilities, developing response playbooks and embedding automation where possible.
* Investigate and respond toescalated security alerts, supporting containment, remediation and recovery activities.
* Supportvulnerability management, including scanning, prioritisation and coordinating remediation.
* Contribute to the development ofsecurity policies, standards and best practices.
* Participate insecurity reviews for new suppliers, systems and technologies.
* Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and help raisesecurity awareness across the organisation.
* Participate in anon‑call rota for high‑severity security incidents (additional payment provided).
What We’re Looking For:
Essential Experience
* Hands‑on experience insecurity engineering and/or security operations within an enterprise environment.
* Experience managingsecurity incidents from triage through to recovery.
* Strong knowledge across several of the following areas:
Identity & Access Security
* Entra ID / Azure AD
* MFA / SSO
* Conditional Access
* Privileged Access Management
* Zero Trust
Endpoint & Email Security
* EDR/XDR platforms (e.g. SentinelOne, CrowdStrike)
* MDM solutions (e.g. Intune, WorkspaceONE)
* Email security platforms (e.g. Mimecast, Darktrace Email)
Cloud & SaaS Security
* Tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz
SIEM & Detection
* SIEM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh, Splunk)
* Alert creation and tuning
* MITRE ATT&CK framework
* Query languages such asKQL or SPL
Network Security
* Firewalls, VPNs, web security controls
* Network detection and response tools
Vulnerability Management
* Scanning tools such asTenable
* Risk prioritisation and remediation coordination
* Compliance reporting
* Strong understanding ofcommon cyber threats, attacker techniques and security hardening practices.
Desirable Experience
* Experience inretail, distribution, warehousing or e-commerce environments
* Exposure toOT / IoT security
* Familiarity withISO 27001, Cyber Essentials and UK/EU regulatory requirements
* Understanding ofsecure development practices (SDLC, SAST/DAST, CI/CD security)
* Experience withdata protection, classification or DLP tooling
* Additional European languages such asFrench, German or Italian
Why Apply?
* Opportunity to helpshape a growing cyber security function
* Work across alarge, international technology environment
* Exposure tomodern security tooling and cloud security platforms
* Collaborate with teams across multiple countries
* Competitive salary and benefits withadditional on‑call allowance
Please APPLY by sending an updated copy of your CV to gday@leap29.com.
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