The Opportunity:
The Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and supporting security solutions to protect the organization's IT infrastructure from cyber threats. This role focuses on hands‑on technical execution, assisting in the deployment and management of security tools, monitoring for vulnerabilities and incidents, and ensuring the organization's systems are configured and maintained securely.
As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will work closely with other IT and security team members to address operational security needs, investigate incidents, and contribute to the organization's compliance with regulatory standards and industry best practices.
This position requires strong technical skills, problem‑solving capabilities, and attention to detail to safeguard sensitive data and systems effectively.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
* Deploy, configure, and maintain, troubleshoot security tools such as SIEM, EDR, DLP, VM, Threat Intel, PAM etc extending to Cloud toolsets
* Perform assessments to understand the current and potential security gaps
* Use monitoring tools to detect and anomalies and suspicious activity, extending to forensic tools
* Review scope of pen tests and facilitate access and set up of pen test from technical perspective.
This is a full‑time role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working, on an initial 12 month fixed term basis.
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site.
About you:
The successful candidate will have:
* Relevant experience in Cybersecurity and/or IT
* Experience in metric reporting and KPI/SLA management
* Managing escalations to a satisfactory outcome
* Experience delivering BAU initiatives and small internal projects using agile methodologies
* Experience working with Jira, Azure DevOps, ITSM tools such as Cherwell and ServiceNow and the MS Office suite.
What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:
* competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
* flexible working;
* corporate health plans;
* a global professional development offering for all employees; and
* an industry‑leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.
We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.
We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.
Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.
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