Cyber Security Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong coding and scripting background, including PowerShell, Python, and Regex
• Proven ability to work with APIs, including HTTP/S headers and responses, and JSON objects
• Proven experience with proxy administration and changes
• Experience with Windows (SMB) and *Nix (NFS) remote storage
• Experience with IIS (Windows Web Server) configuration and Active Directory/LDAP authentication
• Experience applying certificates, software updates, and end-of-life refresh activity
• Experience with VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines and virtual switches
• Experience setting up, implementing, and maintaining cyber security tooling
• Experience creating, testing, and maintaining AI or machine learning technologies to optimise workflows or playbooks
• Experience with SIEM technologies

Responsibilities:

• Lead on the technical aspects of ensuring cyber security appliance efficiency to support alert tuning, network visibility, and log ingesting to relevant toolsets
• Accountable for the effective mapping and topology of SOC toolsets, including integrations and feeds between solutions
• Enrich the visibility and optimisation of SOC tools through data modelling and tuning
• Maintain the primary SOC toolsets, ensuring their availability, functionality, and optimisation
• Be responsible for the daily muster and availability of all cyber security technologies within in-scope environments
• Track product lifecycle accurately and advise management on EOL/EOS roadmaps
• Support the Cyber Security Capability Manager in the coordination, planning, and execution of SOC appliance upgrades
• Support all cyber security pillars with new capability implementation and integration into existing solutions
• Implement cyber security tool changes and configuration, ensuring efficient reporting into CAB and control boards
• Lead on playbook scripting activities, ensuring they are well documented and tested, including fault finding and review of false positives
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert on SOC connectivity and visibility across all in-scope networks and infrastructure, ensuring connections and integrations are understood and documented with the Cyber Security Capability Manager

Technologies:

• AI
• Active Directory
• HTTP
• Hyper-V
• Support
• JSON
• LDAP
• Machine Learning
• Network
• NFS
• PowerShell
• Python
• Security
• SMB
• VMware
• Web
• Windows

More:

We are offering a 24-month contract for a Cyber Security Engineer based in Stevenage, working fully onsite. The role is inside IR35 with an hourly rate of between £80 and £92.11 via Umbrella, working 37 hours per week between 8am and 5pm. Full SC clearance is required before starting, with DV to follow, and the role is restricted to UK Eyes Only due to the project. We are Line Up Aviation, with over 30 years of experience recruiting aviation and aerospace personnel worldwide, and we work with some of the industrys best-known companies that demand the highest standard of applicants.

last updated 35 week of 2026