Senior Cyber Security Engineer
DGH Recruitment · Charing Cross, Central London ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Security
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Salary
- GBP 100,000 / year
Senior Cyber Security Engineer in Charing Cross, Central London (hired via DGH Recruitment): owns cybersecurity controls and security architecture, leads incident response and 3rd-line support, and reviews infrastructure designs. Core stack is Microsoft security tooling, notably Defender and Sentinel; hybrid with 4 days/week onsite during probation, 3 days after.
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- 5 years experience of working within a cyber security engineering / specialist capacity.
- Knowledge of best practices in modern security architectures and incident responses.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft security environments, including Defender and Sentinel.
- Excellent problem-solving ability, including leading multi-disciplinary teams to identify, research and coordinate resource to diagnose and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Hold at least one security-related certification such as CISSP, CEH, or CCNA Security.
- Own and continually develop cybersecurity controls and security architecture.
- Identify vulnerabilities in hardware and software to be remediated by Engineering and Operations teams.
- Understand current and emerging security threats.
- Assist and lead incident response investigations and mitigation.
- Participate in and lead varied IT infrastructure lifecycle and security projects where relevant.
- Create high-level designs, support solution costing, and review project proposals.
- Ensure proposed infrastructure architecture and design align with our policies.
- Evaluate project success after delivery, identifying best practices and lessons learned.
- Provide major problem and incident support where Operations teams need steering from a subject matter expert.
- Liaise with third-party suppliers on system issues.
- Ensure all members of 3rd level teams have relevant skills sharing, procedures, and documentation.
- Hardware
- Support
- Security
More:
We are recruiting for a Senior Cyber Security Engineer / Specialist. The role reports into our Infrastructure Engineering Manager and focuses on cybersecurity controls, security architecture, project delivery, and 3rd line support. Our working policy requires 4 days per week in the office during probation and 3 days thereafter.
last updated 39 week of 2026