Cyber Security Specialist in Hyde Park

We’re looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to join our Cyber Security in a pivotal role as we continue to strengthen Drax’ cyber resilience. As a Cyber Security Specialist, you’ll have a broad role offering plenty of variety as you play a key role in detecting and responding to threats through digital forensics and investigations, enhancing security controls, and ensuring secure-by-design practices across IT and OT environments.

Key accountabilities include:

• Responsible for analysing and responding to enterprise-wide security events across cloud, identity, endpoint and network environments.
• Providing SOC performance metrics and contributing to tracking and improving detection coverage.
• Manage the full incident lifecycle from detection through to containment, eradication and recovery, including root cause analysis.
• You’ll support the analysis of incidents across both IT and OT environments, with impact on critical operations.
• Maintain and tune enterprise tooling including Defender XDR, SIEM/SOAR, automation playbooks and detection logic.
• Contributing to improvements in monitoring coverage, false positive reduction and detection fidelity.
• Work collaboratively across departments, acting as a trusted security partner to projects, architecture and change teams.

Who we’re looking for:

To be successful in this role you’ll be able to demonstrate the following:

• Previous experience in cyber security operations, engineering or detection-focused roles.
• Broad IT infrastructure knowledge: servers, endpoints, virtualisation, networking, firewalls, hybrid cloud environments and remote access technologies.
• Strong proficiency and technical capability across SIEM/SOAR and Microsoft Security suite.
• Able to embrace change and continuously looks for ways to enhance system security, SOC efficiency and overall resilience.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Understanding of the NIS regulatory framework and compliance requirements for Operators of Essential Services is highly desirable.

Rewards and benefits:

As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get:

• A discretionary bonus depending on company performance
• Private Healthcare
• SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time
• Personal accident cover
• Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10%
• Holiday 25 days plus bank holidays
• Reimbursement of the cost of your annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body

We’re committed to making a tangible impact on the climate challenge we all face. Drax is where your individual purpose can work alongside your career drive. We work as part of a team that shares a passion for doing what’s right for the future. With Drax you can shape your career and a future for generations to come. Together, we make it happen.

At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background.

How to apply:

Think this role’s for you? Click the ‘apply now’ button to begin your Drax journey! If you want to find out more about Drax, check out our LinkedIn page to see our latest news. We understand that you may have some additional questions about the role. If you’d like to have a confidential chat to discuss the role in more detail, please email careers@drax.com.