Cyber Security Jobs

• Knutsford
• Mid-level · manages people

Hands-on engineering role safeguarding encryption keys and cryptographic services across enterprise applications, working with Hardware Security Modules and Thales/Entrust tooling. Involves BAU and 24/7 on-call support, security assessments, penetration testing, and key management across Windows and Linux environments, with occasional off-site data centre work.

Thales · Entrust · SharePoint +5

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A PhD project investigating end-to-end guarantees for security systems by verifying translations between programs and the representations used by security protocols. The work centres on Isabelle/HOL, developing semantic models and compilation techniques, with zero-knowledge proof systems such as STARK-style protocols as a key application area. It spans formal methods, programming languages, cybersecurity and cryptography, with scope to shape the direction around the student's interests.

Isabelle/HOL · STARK

• London
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Respond to security incidents across AWS cloud services, triaging issues and driving internal teams to timely remediation while balancing technical and business risk. Build internal automation tools and utilities, mentor junior staff, and share on-call responsibilities. Works within AWS Cloud Response, coordinating multi-team responses and publishing guidance for customer-impacting issues.

AWS

• Malvern, England, United Kingdom
• On-site
• £65,700 – £73,000 pa
• Senior

Technically leads multidisciplinary teams on complex cryptosecurity bids and projects, interpreting user, system and security requirements for crypto systems. Advises on high-grade crypto and key management, analyses algorithms and secure protocols, and engages regularly with customers and stakeholders. Based on-site at Malvern, with travel to customer sites expected.

• United Kingdom - Field
• Senior

Senior individual contributor providing cross-team technical leadership for the Agentic Trust solution, owning complex problem areas spanning multiple services and platform planes. Remains deeply hands-on, shaping designs, prototyping high-risk capabilities, resolving systemic issues, and creating reusable patterns. Involves identity, delegated authority, policy enforcement, and trustworthy execution, with mentoring and architecture reviews.

MCP · C2PA

• United Kingdom - Field
• Senior

Designs, builds, tests and operates significant capabilities of the Agentic Trust solution within R&D, delivering complex features across the full software development lifecycle. Develops secure APIs, services, integrations and SDKs, mentors less experienced developers, and troubleshoots production issues. Works with Product, Architecture and Security peers to keep the platform secure, scalable and reliable.

Kubernetes · MCP · LLM

• Reading
• Hybrid
• £50,000 pa

Supports the Control Testing & Assurance Manager in delivering cybersecurity control testing across multiple security domains, assessing control design and operational effectiveness, gathering evidence and producing reports. Works with control and service owners to localise test scripts and improve testing frameworks, with hybrid working at Clearwater Court, Reading.

COBIT · COSO · ISO 27001

• Leeds
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £45,000 – £50,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Support the development and operation of security controls, analyse threat intelligence, manage vulnerabilities and help with incident response across a global technology estate. Work with Azure and Microsoft security tooling such as Sentinel, Defender and Intune, alongside SIEM, EDR and firewalls, in a hybrid Leeds team.

Microsoft Azure · Microsoft Sentinel · Microsoft Defender for Endpoint +7

• Leeds
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £65,000 – £70,000 pa
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a cyber security team day to day, covering resource planning, rotas and performance management, while overseeing incident response, vulnerability management and cloud security migration. Act as escalation point for security incidents and lead war-gaming exercises within an ITIL and ISO 27001 framework, requiring hands-on Azure security expertise.

Azure · Windows Server · VMware +7

• Norwich
• £20,409 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops quantum-resilient security for connected and autonomous vehicular systems, evaluating post-quantum cryptographic techniques in resource-constrained 6G-enabled networks. Combines system modelling, simulation and algorithmic implementation to study trade-offs between security strength, computational overhead and communication latency, with adaptive key management and optimisation for low-latency, scalable deployment.

6G

• Knutsford
• Senior · manages people

Hands-on engineering role safeguarding encryption keys and cryptographic services across 300+ enterprise platforms, working extensively with Thales and Entrust HSMs. Involves key management, certificate management, production support, and on-call rotation, with occasional off-site data centre work.

Thales · Entrust · SharePoint +5

• Birmingham
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £300 – £400 pd
• Senior
• Contract

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.

AWS · Azure · GenAI

• Southampton
• Remote
• £75,000 – £85,000 pa
• Senior
• Permanent

Principal-level technical security lead on a high-assurance UK defence programme moving from MVP towards operational capability. The role covers secure-by-design architecture, cross-domain information exchange, cyber risk and assurance, IAM, cryptography, cloud and network security, working with solution architects, DevOps and assurance teams. Distinct for its defence focus and ex-military requirement.

DevOps

• London
• Lead

Owns product strategy, roadmap and commercial model for a new publicly trusted certificate authority, spanning ACME issuance, certificate lifecycle automation, revocation and Certificate Transparency. Works across engineering, compliance, legal and go-to-market on high-consequence infrastructure, with an ACME-first, automation-first and post-quantum-ready design.

AWS Certificate Manager · AWS Private CA · Google Trust Services +7