Cyber Security Engineer in North East

Do you have the technical expertise to protect, monitor and strengthen modern IT environments while influencing security strategy?

Can you combine hands‑on cyber security expertise with strategic thinking?

I am working with a Housing Association based in the North East to recruit for an experienced Cyber Security Engineer to play a key role in protecting their systems, infrastructure, and data from an ever‑evolving cyber threat landscape.

This is a great opportunity for a security professional who thrives on combining strategic thinking with hands‑on technical delivery.

You'll be responsible for leading cyber security initiatives, enhancing our security posture, and ensuring that robust controls, monitoring capabilities, and response processes are in place across the organisation.

Working closely with Infrastructure, Cloud and Digital teams, you'll help embed security best practices throughout the business while driving continuous improvement and supporting compliance with recognised frameworks such as ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.

As the Cyber Security Engineer, you'll protect and strengthen the organisation's cyber security posture.

You'll be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining security controls across both cloud and on‑premise environments, ensuring systems, networks and data remain secure against evolving threats.

Working closely with ICT colleagues and business stakeholders, you'll oversee security monitoring, threat detection and incident response activities, while supporting vulnerability management, patch compliance and endpoint security programmes.

You'll lead investigations into cyber security incidents, coordinating containment, recovery and lessons‑learned activities to continuously improve our resilience.

The role will also involve implementing and managing security technologies including SIEM, EDR, firewalls and IDS/IPS solutions, alongside supporting security governance, policy development and regulatory compliance requirements.

You'll help embed a strong security culture across the organisation by providing expert guidance, monitoring emerging threats and adapting security controls accordingly.

In addition, you'll contribute to audits, security reviews and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring our cyber security capabilities continue to evolve in line with business needs and the changing threat landscape.

Essential experience and knowledge

• Hands‑on experience with enterprise security technologies such as SIEM, EDR, firewalls and IDS/IPS.
• Experience securing cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of cyber security frameworks like ISO 27001, CIS Controls, Zero Trust and Cyber Essentials.
• Experience in incident response, vulnerability management and security monitoring.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), MFA, RBAC and Privileged Access Management (PAM).
• Experience with Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel and vulnerability management tools.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs and firewalls.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Ideally you'll hold one of the following Microsoft certifications
• SC-200 Security Operations Analyst
• SC-300 Identity and Access Administrator
• AZ-500 Azure Security Engineer
• SC-100 Cybersecurity Architect
• Alongside an ISC2 certification such as
• SSCP
• CCSP
• CISSP

This is a hybrid role with 2 days a week in the office based in the North East.

The salary is £56,000 to £57,000 with some great benefits.

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