Senior Cyber Security Engineer
ENSEK
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to design secure solutions, perform threat modelling and review designs for cloud, container and service‑based architectures.
- Define and enforce secure configurations, network segmentation, 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 ENSEK’s 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 where appropriate.
- Work with Risk, Legal and InfoSec to embed controls that support regulatory, privacy and contractual requirements across new territories.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience in cyber security within cloud‑native environments, DevOps or platform engineering contexts
- Strong cloud security knowledge: Practical experience securing AWS services, IAM, networking, KMS/secrets and managed services.
- Container and orchestration security: Experience securing Kubernetes and related tooling (runtime protection, admission controllers, image scanning).
- Detection and monitoring: Hands‑on with logging, metrics and tracing for security use cases.
- Infrastructure as Code & automation: Proficient with Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD integration to enforce policy and automate remediations.
- Security Tooling: Hands on experience with Secure Web Gateways, IDP, IDS, EDR, SAST, DAST, WAF technologies.
- Scripting & development skills: Comfortable writing automation and tools in Python, Go, Bash or similar languages.
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
- Option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year
- Vitality Health Insurance, including private healthcare, virtual GP access and mental‑health support
- Pension with 5% matched contribution
- Regular team‑wide and company‑wide events
- 2 volunteering days per year
- Remote‑first working environment (within the UK) with offices in London and Nottingham
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud securitysecure coding practicesvulnerability managementsecrets managementruntime protectionsInfrastructure as CodeautomationscriptingKubernetesAWS
Soft Skills
collaborationincident responseproblem-solvingcommunicationleadership