Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Job Title:Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Job Ref:SCSE-443

Closing Date:25th July 2025

Summary

We are seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our London-based team. This role is critical in safeguarding our IT infrastructure and ensuring the resilience of our systems. You will be responsible for implementing and maintaining security protocols, managing threat detection tools, and supporting the broader IT team in delivering secure and reliable services.

You will play pivotal role in improving company security posture and internal best practices adoption. This is technical hands-on role. Senior Cyber Security Engineer will report to Director of Technology.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, detect, respond, and manage security incidents across on-prem, cloud environments, and social media services, on multiple platforms and operating systems,
• Manage relationships and work closely with third-party cyber security service providers.
• Manage and optimize security tools, including endpoint protection, Microsoft Intune, Entra, Azure, and external detection and response tools.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate patch management cycles.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and support teams to ensure secure configurations of networks, endpoints, applications, and services.
• Collaborate with non-technical end-users on implementing best practices and organize training sessions.
• Lead or support investigations into security breaches and provide detailed incident reports.
• Develop and enforce security policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Provide cybersecurity awareness training and guidance to end users and internal teams.
• Participate in audits and ensure guidelines from industry standards (ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2) are followed internally and best practices regularly reviewed.
• Proactively assess recovery capabilities, with the aim of minimizing business impact in case of incidents.
• Plan and rehearse incident response procedures with wider IT and support team.
• Advise senior management on operational risks.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team.
• Occasional on-call support for critical incidents.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a cybersecurity and IT infrastructure role.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft and Cisco security stack.
• Familiarity with SIEM/SOAR/XDR platforms and incident response frameworks.
• Excellent understanding of network security, firewalls, VPNs, ZTA, endpoint protection, phishing and social media platforms.
• Experience with hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud).
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Self-starter.
• Experience working in media, broadcast environments or social media platforms is a plus.
• Cybersecurity certifications (CISSP, CEH, CISM...) are a plus.