Cyber Security Jobs

Darktrace · Cambridge

Backend engineering role focused primarily on TypeScript, prototyping and building new features for AI-driven cybersecurity products. You'll work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and strategists, using Docker and cloud environments, with opportunities to specialise across languages like Python, Rust and C++. Hybrid, requiring at least two days a week in the Cambridge office.

Darktrace · Cambridge

Owns prototyping and development of new ideas to improve Darktrace's cybersecurity services, balancing creativity with time constraints. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers and technical strategists on rapid prototyping and structured platform development, advancing methods for defending against unknown cyber-attacks. Requires production-quality Python coding, with Docker and containerisation experience and an interest in malware forensics.

CrowdStrike · Ireland

Analyzes large-scale security telemetry, threat intelligence feeds and detection data to surface trends, anomalies and emerging threats, and builds dashboards and reporting workflows in SQL, Python and Logscale. Works cross-functionally with product and data engineering teams to turn raw security data into actionable insights and KPIs for the Office of Adversary Strategy.

CrowdStrike · Romania

Analyzes large-scale security telemetry, threat intelligence feeds and detection data to surface trends, anomalies and emerging threats. Builds dashboards, reports and data pipelines using SQL, Python, Logscale and graph databases, partnering with product and data engineering teams to turn raw security data into actionable insights and KPIs.

Randstad Technologies Recruitment · Birmingham · £300 – £400 pd

Lead a six-month AI and digital platform security initiative, defining controls and guardrails for GenAI and machine learning across global operations. Architect defences spanning AWS, Azure, hybrid and on-prem environments, aligning with NIST and ISO 27001 while mentoring a senior team of security architects and advising C-suite stakeholders.

Palo Alto Networks · London

Technical pre-sales role covering the UK&I region, driving the technology evaluation stage of the sales cycle for the Idira Identity Security Platform. You will run solution demonstrations, architecture reviews and customer proof-of-concepts, designing Zero-Trust access approaches for human and non-human identities across cloud and datacenter environments, and mentoring other solutions engineers.

Palo Alto Networks · London

Senior field engineer role owning complex end-user support across desktop, network and SaaS environments, with deep work in Google Workspace, Okta, CyberArk, Intune and JAMF. Combines hands-on troubleshooting and automation scripting (PowerShell, Python) with mentoring junior engineers and partnering with global IT teams across the Americas, EMEA and APAC.

Ascend Consulting · Stoke-on-Trent · £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Owns the day-to-day technology environment for an engineering and manufacturing business, covering infrastructure management, systems and database administration, cybersecurity, ERP and global support. Leads and mentors an IT team, runs projects such as system upgrades and software implementations, manages budgets and vendors, and ensures compliance and disaster recovery across UK and international offices.

Planet Recruitment · Newbury · £60,000 – £65,000 pa

Senior hands-on role acting as technical authority for Professional Services and Field Engineering, leading discovery, design, implementation and migration of complex client solutions across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security and modern workplace technologies. Combines solution architecture and documentation with personal delivery on multiple projects, plus technical leadership through design reviews and escalation ownership, without formal line management.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) · Cambridge · £71,800 – £91,600 pa

Owns the cyber security agenda for English Learning Technology, setting strategy and priorities while advising senior leaders on cyber risk across applications, platforms, suppliers and services. Leads security governance, assurance and incident response, and builds and develops a small security operations team, working closely with the central security function.

83zero · London · £100,000 – £118,000 pa

Lead cybersecurity advisory engagements for a global IT consultancy, covering risk assessments, maturity reviews, strategy and transformation roadmaps. Advise CISOs and CTOs, embed security into cloud and digital transformation programmes, and support bids and business development while mentoring junior consultants.

Deerfoot Recruitment Solutions · London · £500 – £550 pd

Hands-on contract role managing a broad estate of security tooling across network, email, endpoint and web, plus red team platforms for forensics, threat monitoring and deception. Day to day involves patching, upgrades, policy tuning, troubleshooting, and deploying and integrating new tools, including vendor replacements such as a new web proxy and email gateway. Works within an IT Security team at a financial services organisation, supporting audit and risk activity alongside engineering projects.

Proximity Recruitment · Northampton · £60,000 – £70,000 pa

Hands-on cyber role maintaining and improving security controls across identity, endpoint, cloud, SaaS and infrastructure, promoting least-privilege and zero-trust principles. You will run vulnerability and exposure management, investigate alerts and incidents, and produce risk and remediation reporting while supporting audits and compliance. As the first dedicated cyber hire in a 220-person fintech, the position works closely with IT operations, development, platform teams and external security providers.

Proximity Recruitment · London · £70,000 – £75,000 pa

Hands-on cyber security role maintaining and improving controls across identity, endpoint, cloud, SaaS and business applications, with a least-privilege and zero-trust focus. You will run vulnerability and exposure management, investigate alerts and incidents, and produce risk and remediation reporting while supporting audits and compliance. As the first dedicated cyber hire in a 220-person fintech, the position involves close work with IT operations, development, platform teams and external security providers.

Identify Solutions · Swansea · £45,000 – £55,000 pa

Hands-on role taking technical ownership of cyber security across a predominantly Microsoft environment, working with an infrastructure team and external SOC partners. Day to day involves assessing the estate for security gaps, hardening systems, operating Defender/XDR, EDR and Sentinel, managing Entra ID access controls, and responding to incidents and vulnerabilities.