Senior Cyber Security Engineer – Operations

Senior Cyber Security Engineer – Operations
Location: London, Hybrid – Office and remote
Salary: up to £80K + Excellent package and benefits

Innovative FinTech are looking for a technically strong Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join their security engineering and operations team, with the aim to improve their security operations services to bring these in line with current technical best practices and standards. This role will also act as a lead technical engineer in security operations escalations, dealing with complex security incidents, investigations and operations activities.  This role is critical in safeguarding their platforms and data by ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability across our estate. You will work closely with the Security Operations Manager to detect, respond to, and mitigate evolving cyber threats, while embedding security best practice across the organisation.
Key responsibilities include:

• Triage and investigation of Security Operations Centre (SOC) alerts, escalating where required, acting as a senior technical security expert in the team
• Analyse the effectiveness of the technical security services within the SOC, with the aim to improve these in-line with technical best practice and standards
• Identify gaps in the technical security services, and own and manage the improvement programmes through their project lifecycle 
• Performing root cause analysis of incidents and coordinating effective containment, eradication, and recovery activities
• Managing vulnerability assessments and validating remediation/patching effectiveness
• Coordinating and tracking internal and third-party penetration testing programmes
• Administering and tuning email/web gateways, SIEM platforms, and endpoint detection/response (EDR) tools
• Developing and maintaining threat intelligence feeds; analysing IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) and TTPs (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures)
• Monitoring system compliance against frameworks (ISO27001, NIST, CIS) and driving remediation programmes
• Supporting the evaluation, deployment, and configuration of next-gen and cloud-native security solutions

Technical skills and experience required:

• Strong knowledge of risk management methodologies and cyber defence principles
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms, IDS/IPS, EDR, and vulnerability management tools
• Familiarity with cloud security controls and standards (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Working knowledge of incident response processes, digital forensics, and malware analysis
• Experience with secure configuration, hardening, and monitoring of operating systems, networks, and applications
• Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat modelling practices
• Knowledge of cryptography, authentication, and identity/access management solutions
• Experience in financial services or high-availability environments preferred
• Ability to challenge and improve security architecture, processes, and policies

If you are passionate about cyber defence, thrive on technical challenges, and want to influence the security posture of a fast-paced environment, this is a great role to be both pro-active and operational.

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