Cyber Security Jobs in Cambridge

RiverSafe · London

Client-facing consulting role leading end-to-end security engagements across security architecture, cloud security, DevSecOps, application security and security operations. You'll run workshops, design controls in AWS/Azure/GCP, produce risk-based deliverables and help identify follow-on work, contributing to proposals and account growth.

Appvia · London · £75,000 – £90,000 pa

Design, build and operate secure AWS platforms using Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS and CI/CD for public and private sector clients. You will own technical delivery in your area, create reusable modules and deployment patterns, and mentor less experienced engineers within multi-disciplinary consulting teams.

Genomics England · London · £89,000 pa

Architect secure, resilient network connectivity spanning AWS cloud platforms and on-premise infrastructure, supporting clinicians and researchers accessing sensitive genomic data. The role balances long-term network strategy with practical delivery, defining target architectures, standards and reusable patterns across cloud, hybrid, remote-access and partner connectivity. Involves designing AWS networking, hybrid multi-site connectivity, zero-trust security, and providing architectural governance through delivery.

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.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) · Cambridge · £54,800 – £73,250 pa

Designs secure, scalable cloud-native solutions on AWS within the English Enterprise Architecture team, partnering with product, engineering and security to shape architectures for large-scale transformation programmes. Produces architecture artefacts and decision records, governs architectural integrity, manages technical debt and risks, and mentors engineering teams.

SoCode · Cambridge · £80,000 – £100,000 pa

Owns software security strategy, architecture and standards across a diverse product portfolio, embedding threat modelling and secure-by-design into the full lifecycle. Works with engineering and product teams on architecture reviews, vulnerability management, CI/CD security and release criteria, plus EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance. Desirable background includes embedded systems, IoT, Android and embedded Linux.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £80,000 – £95,000 pa

Owns software security strategy, roadmap and architecture across a product portfolio, leading threat modelling, secure design and security requirements. Defines secure architecture patterns and controls, embeds security into development and CI/CD, and oversees vulnerability management, security testing and release assurance while providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

Platform Recruitment · Cambridge · £60,000 – £70,000 pa

Senior role shaping system design and test criteria for Linux-based embedded systems, leading software security work including Hardware Root of Trust, Secure Boot and TPM integration. Day to day involves embedded C development, Yocto build systems and Linux kernel work, integrating software with hardware via I2C, SPI and UART, plus root-cause debugging. The position also includes mentoring junior engineers within an Agile R&D environment.

Harrington Boyd · London · £52,000 – £74,000 pa

Designs and shapes security solutions across complex technology transformation programmes for public and private sector clients, translating business and security requirements into practical architectures and technical designs. Covers cloud, infrastructure, networks, applications and enterprise security, with threat modelling and Secure by Design applied throughout the lifecycle. Works directly with clients, solution architects and engineers rather than focusing on governance or BAU security.

Entrust · Cambridge

Leads the design and delivery of complex features in a cryptographic security product, working hands-on across embedded software, platform components, client tools and APIs. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers and supports system-level architecture decisions on availability, latency and data models. Hybrid role in Cambridge, three days onsite.

Darktrace · Cambridge

Lead strategic and hands-on UX research across multiple cybersecurity products, defining a cross-product research roadmap with UX, Product and Engineering leaders. Conduct qualitative and quantitative studies to inform platform unification, navigation and information architecture, translating findings into personas, journey maps and workflow models while scaling research practice.

Darktrace · Cambridge

Lead the strategy, roadmap and execution of Darktrace's interactive demo estate, shaping how products are showcased to prospects, customers and internal teams. Manage a small team of technical content specialists while partnering with Product, Marketing, Enablement and Sales Engineering to evolve demos from on-rails walkthroughs into live sandbox environments.

Avanti Recruitment · London · £60,000 – £100,000 pa

Advises clients on core security across cloud, identity, applications, data and governance while addressing AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, excessive agency and data leakage. Runs security assessments and architecture reviews, threat models agentic workflows and LLM applications, and helps establish guardrails and governance for AI systems from experimentation to production.

TTP · Cambridge

Consultants assess critical systems for cyber-physical vulnerabilities, combining deep hardware research, testing and reverse engineering with rapid prototyping of proof-of-concept demonstrators. Work spans niche defence and national security projects, interfacing with hardware via protocols like JTAG and UART and using test equipment such as oscilloscopes. The role is fully on-site in Cambridge labs within a flat, collaborative ~40-person consultancy.

TTP · Cambridge

Consultants assess critical systems for vulnerabilities, building proof-of-concept demonstrators that combine software, hardware and user interaction. The role spans reverse engineering, low-level programming and rapid prototyping for UK defence and national security clients, working on-site alongside around 40 scientists and engineers.