Cyber Security Engineer in Bristol

Unite Students are looking for an experienced Cyber Security Engineer to join a thriving and innovative team. We are seeking an accomplished Cybersecurity Engineer with a proven track record in protecting complex IT environments, both on-premise and cloud. The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity tooling, threat analysis, and hands-on experience implementing and maintaining secure network infrastructures across diverse platforms. They will also be a methodical problem-solver with a strong security-first mindset and confident communication skills at all levels of an organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance of the organisation's firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation and secure remote access controls, ensuring they're properly configured, monitored, and compliant with industry standards.
• Manage and improve endpoint security tooling including XDR, vulnerability scanners, and device hardening baselines.
• Continuously improve detection coverage by analysing threat trends and incorporating new indicators into network monitoring tools.
• Liaise with SIEM/SOC provider to ensure effective detection, alerting and automated response.
• Ensure critical logs are captured, analysed, and retained in line with compliance and auditing requirements.
• Lead or support cyber incident response investigations, providing root cause analysis and remediation recommendations.
• Automate security controls, deployments, and monitoring using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Oversee vulnerability assessments and ensure timely and appropriate patching of network and endpoint devices.
• Contribute to secure design reviews for new applications, cloud workloads, and infrastructure changes.
• Assist in third-party risk assessments and technical reviews of supplier integrations.

Qualifications

• An in-depth understanding and hands-on experience of networking protocols and technologies including firewalls, perimeter security, endpoint security and XDR solutions.
• Strong understanding of secure network design: VLANs, VPNs, DNS, TCP/IP, segmentation, and access control.
• Proven experience securing AWS and Microsoft Azure environments, including identity management, RBAC, conditional access, and threat protection.
• Confident, credible communicator able to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactive, accountable, and comfortable owning security decisions and outcomes.
• More than three years' experience in a network security engineering role.
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS and GDPR.

Benefits

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company's success.
• 25 days' paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service.
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save.
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends.
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!