Senior Cyber Security Specialist

Senior Cyber Security Specialist | Financial Services and Investment Management Company | Remote (UK) | £65,000–£75,000 + 20% Bonus + Leading Benefits

The Company

Our client is a market‑leading financial services and real estate investment organisation operating across more than 20 business units across Europe. With major investment into cyber security, cloud modernisation, and Microsoft technologies, this is an ideal environment for a security engineer who wants to make a real impact across a complex, fast‑evolving landscape.

What candidates at this level typically look for and what this opportunity genuinely offers:

• A cutting-edge Microsoft-first security ecosystem including Azure, Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel (SIEM), Purview, Intune, and Entra ID
• A high‑influence engineering role shaping security controls across 20+ business units
• A culture where security is prioritised and supported at the highest level
• Strong investment in training, certifications, and long-term career progression
• Fully remote role with occasional UK/European travel for collaboration and project delivery

The Role

As the Senior Cyber Security Specialist, you’ll play a critical hands-on role in strengthening and advancing the organisation’s security posture. You’ll contribute to project delivery, uplift SOC and cyber operations, enhance tooling, and engineer strong, scalable security controls across a diverse technology estate.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as the security engineering SME across group-wide projects, reviewing solution designs and embedding security from the outset
• Enhancing SOC capability through triage, threat investigation, tuning, and improving detection logic
• Leading vulnerability management activities using Qualys, Defender for Endpoint, and Azure-native scanning tools
• Coordinating and analysing penetration tests, ensuring findings are effectively remediated
• Engineering security improvements across Azure, M365, endpoint, identity, and network security stacks
• Driving cyber maturity uplift across multiple European business units with varying technology baselines

Your Experience

Our client is seeking a technically strong, hands-on cyber engineer who enjoys combining SOC experience, engineering capability, and project involvement.

You should bring:

• 4+ years’ experience in cyber security engineering, SOC, or technical security operations within complex environments
• Practical experience with Microsoft security tooling (Defender XDR, Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Intune, Purview, Entra ID)
• Experience with Qualys, Mimecast, Zscaler or similar enterprise-grade security platforms
• Strong knowledge of Azure security principles, cloud governance, identity protection, and threat detection
• Solid understanding of incident response processes and vulnerability management
• Ability to collaborate across multiple business units and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Next Steps

This Senior Cyber Security Specialist role is already attracting strong interest and won’t be available for long. If you’re interested, click apply or reach out to me directly.