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Job Description:
Our client is looking to appoint a Team Manager to lead its Security Operations team and ensure effective detection of, and response to, cybersecurity threats.
You will help lead incident response, develop the team's defensive capability and help shape the Security Operations roadmap in line with the wider strategy.
This role combines people leadership, technical judgement and operational oversight.
You will support the team to respond effectively to incidents while continuing to strengthen its detection and response capabilities and help it adapt as technology and the threat landscape evolve.
Skills/Experience:
Experience leading a security operations, detection and response, or incident response team - either as a Team Leader or a Manager.
Experience leading significant security incidents and coordinating technical and business stakeholders.
Experience setting operational priorities and delivering improvements to security capabilities.
Strong practical knowledge of security investigations, incident management, containment and recovery.
Knowledge of common attack techniques, threat intelligence, threat hunting and prevention methods.
Experience using security telemetry and monitoring tools to investigate threats and improve detection.
An understanding of identity, endpoint, network and cloud security.
A supportive and decisive manager who develops people while maintaining a strong operational service.
Technical credibility to guide investigations and advise other teams, alongside the judgement to set direction and make sensible choices about priorities and resources.
Able to bring structure to incomplete information during an incident, involve the right people and communicate clearly.
Works well across technology and risk teams and is curious about emerging threats and technologies.
An improvement mindset, with the ability to enable others.
Experience managing operational costs or supplier services would be an advantage.
A relevant security or incident response certification would be an advantage.
Core Responsibilities:
Lead, coach and develop the team, setting priorities and managing operational capacity.
Ensure effective security monitoring, alert investigation, detection tuning and threat hunting.
Act as an incident response lead, coordinating assessment, containment, escalation and recovery.
Provide a technical escalation point for teams dealing with cyber incident-related issues.
Own the operational use of threat intelligence.
Set the Security Operations roadmap, balancing capability development, operational priorities, capacity and costs.
Oversee the operational use of security monitoring and response tooling, working with technology teams on platform development and integrations.
Provide security expertise to projects and technology teams, working with risk teams on controls and material risks.
Represent Security Operations at relevant forums and report to senior leaders on threats, incidents, performance and capability gaps.
Use incident reviews and operational evidence to improve detection's, response procedures and ways of working.
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Type: Permanent Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Start: ASAP
Posted: 2026-10-15 10:31:29
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Senior IT Security Architect - Financial Services - Lugano / Hybrid
(Key skills: IT Security Architecture, Cybersecurity, Security Frameworks, Cloud Security, Network & System Security, Identity & Access Management, Secure Design, Threat Modelling, Security Standards (ISO 27001, NIST), Risk Management, Architecture Governance, Stakeholder Advisory)
Are you an experienced security architect with a passion for designing robust, scalable and compliant security solutions in complex environments? Do you want to work at the forefront of protecting critical financial services platforms and customer data? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to influence security strategy and shape secure architectures at scale.
Our client, a highly reputable financial services organisation, is seeking a Senior IT Security Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-level security architectures across business-critical systems.
You will play a strategic role in shaping how secure digital services are delivered across the organisation, advising on security standards, controls and optimisations that protect both customers and internal operations.
As Senior IT Security Architect, you will partner with cross-functional teams including cloud engineering, software development, infrastructure, risk and compliance.
You will define secure architecture patterns for both on-premise and cloud services, review designs and implementations, and ensure alignment with regulatory and internal security requirements.
You'll be instrumental in developing threat models, conducting security risk assessments and embedding secure design principles into project lifecycles.
In this role, you will develop security reference architectures, recommend security controls, and guide technical teams on secure implementation practices.
You will be a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing insight on emerging threats, vulnerability mitigations and compliance obligations.
You'll help maintain and enhance the organisation's security frameworks and contribute to continuous improvement of security governance and monitoring capabilities.
The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in security architecture — particularly within financial services, banking or other regulated sectors — and a strong understanding of security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP and CIS Controls.
You'll be comfortable working with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), identity and access management solutions, encryption technologies and enterprise networking/security stacks.
Your ability to communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders will be key to your success.
This is a rare opportunity to own security architecture for an organisation where digital innovation, data protection and security best practices are integral to the business strategy.
You'll join a collaborative team that values experience, initiative and leadership — and you'll have significant influence over the future of secure technology delivery.
Location: Lugano, Switzerland / Hybrid working
Salary: CHF 100,000 - CHF 120,000 + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Applicants must have the right to work in Switzerland.
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Type: Permanent Location: Lugano, Switzerland
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Swiss Franc100000 - Swiss Franc120000 per annum + + Bonus + Benefits + Pension
Posted: 2026-10-12 02:02:43
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Senior Cyber Security Analyst London (hybrid working, 3 days per week onsite) Up to £80,000 PA plus bonus
Extremely exciting enterprise-scale, global entertainment organisation seeking an experienced, Senior Security Analyst to join a growing security team, taking a key role across vulnerability and exposure management, security monitoring, incident response and risk.
You'll be working with closely with a small, highly dedicated, highly capable team.This is a broad, hands-on position and would suit someone who has built strong technical experience within a SOC, but who does not want to be limited to one narrow area of Security Operations.You'll work across a predominantly Microsoft environment, helping to detect and respond to security threats, manage vulnerabilities end to end, improve security tooling and strengthen the organisation's overall security posture.Responsibilities:
Investigate and respond to security alerts and incidents at Tier 2/3 level, using your own technical judgement rather than simply following predefined playbooks
Own and continuously improve the Vulnerability Management lifecycle, covering discovery, analysis, prioritisation, remediation and tracking
Drive wider Exposure Management activity across cloud, on-premise and third-party environments
Work closely with technical teams and system owners to ensure vulnerabilities are understood and remediated in line with business risk
Monitor and respond to threats across Microsoft Entra and M365, including identity-related incidents and account compromise
Support security hardening, IAM, architecture and deployment activity across the Microsoft environment
Investigate security events using platforms including Microsoft Defender XDR and EDR tooling
Analyse structured security and log data to identify malicious or suspicious activity.
Support the management of major Cyber Security incidents and coordinate response activity with relevant stakeholders
Use threat intelligence to identify emerging risks and drive proactive security activity.
Support Security Risk Management activities, including third-party security assessments.
Help improve detection capability, including opportunities around MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection engineering
Identify opportunities to automate repetitive SOC processes using SOAR, orchestration and AI-assisted tooling
Requirements:
Strong previous experience working within a SOC environment, ideally at Tier 2 or Tier 3 level
Experience handling security incidents independently and making technical decisions during investigations
Strong end-to-end Vulnerability Management experience, covering discovery, analysis and remediation
Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft Entra, including security monitoring, incident response, IAM and hardening
Experience securing both cloud and on-premise environments
Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures
Experience working with technologies such as Defender XDR, SIEM, EDR, Vulnerability Management and SOAR platforms
Familiarity with security and vulnerability frameworks (e.g.
MITRE ATT&CK, CVSS, CISA KEV and NIST)
Ability to query and analyse structured security and log data
A broader technical IT background, ideally across areas such as infrastructure, systems administration, networking or IT support
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Type: Permanent Location: London, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Up to £80000 per annum + plus bonus
Posted: 2026-10-08 07:02:24
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Security Engineer required for global organisation with HQ in Redhill; Surrey.
Main Purpose of Job
· Developing the information security plans and policies for the company and Customers working with Security Management and Compliance functions to embed security
management plans into operational practice
· Implementing protections and solutions to ensure and enforce the information security plans and policies
· Monitoring and collating information from monitoring tools as well as third parties to provide an accurate view of the current security position of the organisation and customers
including security events, ongoing risks and treatment plan
· Investigation and resolution of security incidents events logged by staff members, monitoring tools and security partners.
· Educating and advising team members on the handling security threats e.g.
suspicious emails, security alerts, CVE, etc.
· To have responsibility for the through life security of both internal and customer networks/systems as required by the company testing for vulnerabilities and recommending
improvements.
· To participate and support all internal IT & Engineering teams including providing advice and expertise on the design and management of internal, customer and global networks from a cybersecurity perspective.
Creating documentation around policies, procedures and events.
Technical expertise:
Security
· Be the centre of excellence for network and device security
· Lead by example and develop and maintain personal and group technical expertise in company bespoke products and security ensuring integrity and security of networks;
Good working knowledge & experience of
o Cisco Firewalls, Routers& Switches,
o Compliance standards (ISO27001 and ITIL)
o Security tools sets (SIEM, IDS/IPS)
o Pen Testing tools
o Vulnerability Management
· Design, build, test, commission and troubleshoot security solutions (IDS/IPS, SIEM) on internal and customer networks
Experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards and guidelines · Write and maintain configuration/reconfiguration documentation, schematics, support guides and other documentation as required.
· Share knowledge, train, support and develop individuals internally on security management · Work across the IT, Enterprise and Hub Engineering teams in support of own and customer networks.
To support the IT Manager and IT team in ensuring the highest levels of network and device security.
Point of contact: · To be the key expert in CyberSecurity Design/Management for the company and customers as required · Final point of contact for security issues including trouble shooting and resolving to sometimes tight timescales.
· Be involved within the company Incident Management scheme.
· To liaise with other departments as required to ensure full support of networks and knowledge.
· Providing appropriate technical advice regarding complex cybersecurity problems.
· Following up and driving issues through to satisfactory completion.
· Identifying training needs to ensure consistency of service
· Appropriate planning of maintenance and outage
Experience/Skills/Qualifications:
· A minimum of 5 years multi network exposure including hands on experience of designing and managing secure networks including the following systems:
o Cisco Firewalls, Routers, Switches
o Juniper platforms
o SIEM tools
o IDS/IPS
o Penetration testing (PEN Testing)
o Computer Forensic tools
o ISO27001 & GDPR knowledge
· Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and management
· Ability to absorb and quickly gain and retain knowledge of bespoke products & satellite services
· Must be able to demonstrate technical competency in all they do with a right first time, every time attitude.
· Excellent customer support skills and ability to interact with customers both on the phone and in meetings
· Must hold, or have the ability to easily achieve SC Security Clearance.
· A well organised, pro-active and can-do attitude.
· Effective communicator with an eye for detail and accurate planning skills
Desirable:
· Telecommunications background
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Type: Permanent Location: REDHILL, England
Start:
Duration:
Salary / Rate: £48000 - £50000 Per Annum
Posted: 2026-09-16 14:06:27
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C Software Engineer - Defence Sector - Cambridge
A growing Defence and Security company, based in Cambridge, is currently seeking an experienced C Software Engineer to contribute to the development of breakthrough technologies that will enhance the UK's security against external threats.
You will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge systems architecture, ideally utilizing past firmware and embedded software tools.
The projects you will be involved in will truly mind-blowing, challenging you on a daily basis.
It would also be ideally, though not essential, if you have previous knowledge and experience in Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
There will also be a significant amount of algorithm development, so a strong mathematical background would be advantageous in this role.
The company has recently revamped cutting-edge labs, enabling development at the forefront of the sector.
This means you will be working on brand-new developments using the latest technologies available.
Knowledge of other programming languages such as C++, MATLAB, or Python will also be required.
As this role involves working in the defence and security sectors, you will need to be able to obtain (or already hold) security clearance.
If you have previous experience in the defence and security field and hold security clearance, this would be highly advantageous.
In addition to working within a growing company on some of the most fascinating projects, you will also be rewarded with an excellent starting salary (based on level of experience), bonuses, enhanced pensions, healthcare, gym membership, free lunches, and other excellent benefits you would expect from a larger organisation.
If you believe you are well-suited for this role, I suggest submitting an application now to avoid missing out on this career opportunity.
For more information, please feel free to call Andrew Welsh, Director of Medical Devices Recruitment and Scientific Recruitment Specialists Newton Colmore, on +44 121 268 2240, or submit an application, and one of our team members at Newton Colmore will contact you.
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Type: Permanent Location: Cambridge, England
Salary / Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 2026-09-11 10:05:40
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We are supporting a leading technology organisation in the search for a Cyber Security Analyst to join its Security Operations team.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced cybersecurity environment, helping to protect critical infrastructure and enterprise systems through proactive monitoring, incident response, and threat analysis.
Working as part of a 24/7 operational security function, you will play a key role in identifying, investigating, and responding to security threats across both cloud-based and on-premise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor security events, alerts, and incidents across enterprise networks and systems.
- Manage security cases and tickets through to resolution.
- Analyse logs and data from SIEM platforms, security monitoring tools, network infrastructure, and endpoint technologies.
- Investigate and triage security alerts to identify malicious activity and determine attack methods and techniques.
- Follow established incident response and escalation procedures to contain and mitigate security risks.
- Ensure all incidents are accurately documented, including indicators of compromise, evidence, and investigation findings.
- Identify and address false positives, providing feedback to improve detection capabilities.
- Support the development and optimisation of security monitoring rules and processes.
- Analyse data sets to identify security gaps and recommend improvements.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Digital Forensics, or a related discipline, or equivalent industry experience.
- 3+ years' experience in cyber security, security operations, threat analysis, or security monitoring.
- Experience investigating security incidents and working within a Security Operations Centre environment.
- Understanding of incident response processes, security event triage, and escalation procedures.
- Strong knowledge of networking protocols, authentication mechanisms, and common attack techniques.
- Good understanding of information security principles, technologies, and best practices.
- Experience securing and supporting Windows and Linux environments.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable
- Industry certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, or equivalent cyber security qualifications.
- Experience working with SIEM platforms and security monitoring technologies.
- Knowledge of Oracle and virtualised environments.
What\'s on Offer
- Opportunity to work within a highly skilled cyber security team.
- Exposure to complex security environments and emerging threats.
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
- Collaborative and supportive working culture.
- Competitive salary, bonus and benefits package.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Cyber Security Analyst looking to further develop their incident response, threat analysis, and security operations expertise within a technically challenging environment.
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Type: Permanent Location: London,England
Start: 11/09/2026
Salary / Rate: Competitive
Posted: 2026-09-11 08:19:06
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FPGA Electronics Engineer - Defence - Cambridge
I'm supporting a defence company in Cambridge that works on some of the most challenging engineering problems facing UK defence and national security.
They're looking for an FPGA specialist who enjoys getting into the detail, building solutions from first principles and turning complex ideas into working systems that make a real‑world difference.
You'd be joining a team where engineers, scientists and designers collaborate closely, moving quickly from concept to prototype.
The work is varied, hands‑on and genuinely meaningful, with projects focused on countering emerging technological and cyber threats.
It's the kind of environment where curiosity is encouraged, technical depth is valued and people take pride in solving problems that matter.
The role spans the full development cycle, from requirements capture through to design, implementation, verification and delivery.
You'll be working with modern FPGA toolchains and contributing to projects that often involve DSP, modelling, embedded systems or advanced communications technologies.
Strong experience with VHDL or Verilog is essential, and any exposure to areas such as MATLAB/Simulink, electronics, embedded C/C++, SDRs, radar or communications systems would be a real advantage.
They're open to engineers at different career stages, provided you bring solid fundamentals and a genuine interest in this type of work.
Prior defence experience helps but isn't essential.
The organisation offers a well‑resourced, supportive environment with excellent facilities and a culture that invests in people.
Relocation support is available where appropriate.
Due to the nature of the projects, you'll need to be eligible for UK Security Clearance, and the role isn't open to visa sponsorship.
Interest in this role is expected to be high, so early applications are encouraged.
To discuss the position in more detail, you can contact Andrew Welsh, Director of Medical Devices, Biotech and DeepTech Recruitment at Newton Colmore, on +44 121 268 2240.
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Type: Permanent Location: Cambridge, England
Salary / Rate: Pension, bonus, medical etc.
Posted: 2026-09-04 09:02:20
