Senior Cyber Security Engineer

PayPoint plc
Welwyn Garden City
10 months ago
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What will you be doing

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to come join the PayPoint Group team. If you’re passionate and like a challenge, then please keep reading….


You will be responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining security content such as rules, playbooks, dashboards, and reports for our security systems.

This role requires a strong understanding of security best practices, and experience working with enterprise security platforms within a SOC environment. You will join the Information Security team and use your experience to provide technical guidance and mentorship to the existing team members.


You'll help keep our systems safe by setting up security alerts, improving threat detection, and automating incident response. Managing logs and ensuring our most important assets are protected will be part of your daily tasks.

You'll monitor security threats, analyze patterns, and proactively hunt for risks. By using advanced tools, you’ll detect unusual activities and strengthen security across our network. You'll also help manage endpoint security, check system health, and work with our infrastructure team to keep everything running smoothly.


Incident Response & Prevention -

When security incidents happen, you’ll investigate, assess the impact, and take action to contain threats. You'll also work on automating routine tasks to speed up our response times. From start to finish, you’ll oversee cybersecurity incidents, document findings, and suggest improvements.


Security Testing & Business Support -

You’ll take part in cyber-attack simulations, penetration testing, and security drills to make sure our defines are strong. You'll also help identify critical business assets and suggest ways to keep them safe.


What would we like from you?

We’re looking for someone with 4-6 years of experience in cybersecurity and hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Defender XDR, Azure Sentinel, Cloudflare, and Mimecast.


You should also be comfortable working with security tools like firewalls, IDS, WAF, DLP, IAM, and MFA across platforms such as Windows, Linux, VMware, and AKS.

Strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and a proactive mindset are key. If you love learning and staying ahead of security threats, we want to hear from you!


What can we do for you?

The majority of this role will be remote (Hybrid) but will require some travel to our bright and modern offices in Welwyn Garden City and occasional travel to our Liverpool Love2shop office.


  • Holiday purchase scheme, with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays as standard.
  • On-site gym at our office (Free), and nationwide corporate rate gym membership
  • Online benefits portal where you can access lots of deals, discounts - for example of shopping or holidays
  • Contributory company pension scheme
  • Progression and Development
  • Private medical insurance
  • Electric Car Scheme
  • Life assurance of 3 x annual gross salary, with the option to purchase additional cover
  • You’re also able to purchase a range of benefits at a discounted rate including, critical illness cover, bicycles via our Cycle2Work scheme, dental insurance and TasteCard dining discount card


We’re committed to building a culture that empowers all our people to thrive and feel a sense of belonging at PayPoint.

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