Principal Cyber Security Engineer

Salary: £55,000 - 55,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in technical cyber security or information security engineering, with practical delivery of improvements
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and cloud security controls
• Experience maintaining log ingestion pipelines and improving alert fidelity
• Ability to support incident response as a technical subject matter expert
• Experience working across hybrid infrastructure and integrating security systems effectively
• Ability to proactively monitor the health and optimisation of security tooling
• Right to work in the UK, or the ability to obtain it

Responsibilities:

• Design, improve, and maintain our technical cyber security and information security defences
• Ensure the health, optimisation, and continuous improvement of our cyber security tooling
• Maintain and improve SIEM, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and cloud security controls
• Maintain log ingestion pipelines and improve alert fidelity
• Ensure our security systems are effectively integrated across our hybrid infrastructure
• Support incident response by identifying, containing, and remediating threats
• Contribute to lessons learned and measurable service improvements
• Work closely with colleagues across Information Services to support operational needs while maintaining strong protection
• Deliver operational improvements aligned to our Cyber Security Roadmap and Cyber Security Strategy
• Strengthen cyber resilience across our services through practical engineering and proactive monitoring

Technologies:

• Cloud
• Support
• Security

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We are the University of Portsmouth, a global employer of choice and one of only four universities in the south-east of England to achieve a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework. We are also ranked among the top 140 universities globally in the Times Higher Young University World Rankings. Our culture is driven by ambition, responsibility, and openness, and we offer a professional community that values people, innovation, and achievement. This role is based within our University of Portsmouth Academic Services Ltd (UASL) environment, with hybrid working available and a need to be in Portsmouth a few days a week. We offer competitive pay, a generous pension, annual leave including bank holidays and Christmas closure, family-friendly flexibility, staff discounts, parking and travel discounts, training and development, wellbeing support, recreation facilities, discounted learning, and business mentoring opportunities.

last updated 30 week of 2026