ENSEK

ENSEK

Nottingham, East Midlands

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Full-Time£39,000 - 79,000 per yearvorgesternUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £39,000 - 79,000 per year

Requirements:
  • 5+ years experience in cyber security within cloud-native environments, DevOps or platform engineering contexts.
  • Strong cloud security knowledge, including practical experience securing AWS services, IAM, networking, KMS/secrets and managed services.
  • Experience securing Kubernetes and related tooling, including runtime protection, admission controllers and image scanning.
  • Hands-on experience with logging, metrics and tracing for security use cases.
  • Proficiency with Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD integration to enforce policy and automate remediations.
  • Hands-on experience with Secure Web Gateways, IDP, IDS, EDR, SAST, DAST and WAF technologies.
  • Comfortable writing automation and tools in Python, Go, Bash or similar languages.
Responsibilities:
  • Embed security into our B2B SaaS platform and partner with Engineering, SRE, Risk and Product across the product lifecycle.
  • Design secure solutions, perform threat modelling and review cloud, container and service-based architectures.
  • Define and enforce secure configurations, network segmentation, and identity and access controls for public cloud, primarily AWS.
  • Implement secure coding practices, vulnerability management, secrets management and runtime protections for services and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Build and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting for security events.
  • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews to drive remediation and lessons learned.
  • Support our 24/7 Incident Management processes to ensure security and stability for clients.
  • Automate security checks, policy enforcement and remediation using IaC, CI/CD integrations and custom tooling.
  • Work with Risk, Legal and InfoSec to embed controls that support regulatory, privacy and contractual requirements across new territories.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • Bash
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • IAM
  • Incident Management
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Network
  • Python
  • Security
  • Terraform
  • WAF
  • Web

More:

We build cloud-native SaaS software that is transforming how energy retailers operate, innovate and manage at scale. We help retailers lower operating costs, improve billing accuracy for consumers and enhance customer experience through automation and AI-driven insight, all underpinned by modern cloud-native architecture. We are at an exciting inflection point as we scale towards new international horizons, and this is a high-impact, hands-on Senior Cyber Security Engineer role where youll influence architecture, strengthen detection and response, and champion secure-by-design practices across a rapidly modernising engineering organisation. We offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, the option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year, Vitality Health Insurance with private healthcare, virtual GP access and mental-health support, a pension with 5% matched contribution, regular team-wide and company-wide events, 2 volunteering days per year, and a remote-first working environment within the UK with offices in London and Nottingham.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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About ENSEK

ENSEK

ENSEK

Nottingham

IT

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDAIDevOpsSREUI

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