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Role Overview: Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results. Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
Job Description
IT Security Engineer
Locations: Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow
Role Overview: We are recruiting an IT Security Engineer to strengthen the firm’s cyber security posture by delivering and maintaining robust technical controls across infrastructure, cloud, and application environments. The Security Engineer plays a key role in identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities, optimising security tooling, and supporting incident response readiness. The role collaborates closely with architecture, development, and governance teams to embed security into solution design, ensure compliance with internal and external standards, and drive continuous improvement. This role can be based in Manchester, Birmingham or Glasgow office. Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, but we are willing to consider flexible working requests.
Responsibilities and focus areas
• Deliver and maintain robust technical controls across infrastructure, cloud, and application environments to strengthen the firm’s cyber security posture.
• Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, optimise security tooling, and support incident response readiness.
• Collaborate with architecture, development, and governance teams to embed security into solution design and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external standards and policies.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
* IAM: Proficient in Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and LDAP. Experience implementing RBAC and conditional access policies.
* SIEM & threat detection: Hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR; log correlation, custom rule creation, false positive reduction, and integration of threat intelligence feeds; familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
* Network security: Knowledge of Cisco ASA, Firepower, and Meraki; network segmentation, zero trust, firewall rule base management, least privilege principles; IDS/IPS experience.
* Cloud security: Azure security controls; review and secure Terraform templates; understanding of CWPP.
* Vulnerability & pen testing: Experience with automated vulnerability scanning tools (e.g., Qualys, Tenable); manage penetration testing initiatives and remediation tracking.
* Automation & Scripting: Scripting with PowerShell and/or Python; experience with automation platforms like Azure Logic Apps.
* MSSP Integration: Experience integrating and managing security operations with Managed Security Service Providers.
* DevSecOps: Familiarity with SAST/DAST tools (e.g., Bandit, RetireJS, Trivy) and integration of security testing into CI/CD pipelines.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy, providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. We strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Diversity and Inclusion
Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to demonstrate their experience and talents.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
Industries
* Legal Services and Law Practice
Note: This description may include regional location details and related postings; not all items are essential to the role.
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