About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Proven leadership experience in Cyber Security Engineering, Security Operations, or Cyber Resilience.
- Strong experience managing enterprise security platforms in a Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or Microsoft Sentinel.
- Expertise in cloud, identity, endpoint, infrastructure, and collaboration security.
- Experience implementing security automation, detection engineering, and vulnerability management capabilities.
- Strong understanding of cyber resilience, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Experience leading complex security initiatives in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead our Cyber Security Engineering and Resilience function, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable security services.
- Own the delivery, operation, and optimisation of security platforms across cloud, endpoint, identity, collaboration, and infrastructure environments.
- Drive cyber resilience initiatives so critical services can withstand and recover from disruption.
- Enhance threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring capabilities.
- Develop automation and engineering solutions to improve operational efficiency and security outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, investigations, and service recovery activities.
- Define service roadmaps, technical standards, KPIs, and continuous improvement plans.
- Partner with technology, risk, resilience, and business stakeholders to strengthen our security posture and reduce risk.
Technologies
- Cloud
- Support
- Security
- DevOps
More
We are seeking a Cyber Engineering Lead for a six-month contract based in London, with three days per week on site and a hybrid remote arrangement. In this role, you will lead the strategy, performance, and continuous improvement of security platforms, detection capabilities, automation, and resilience services that protect critical business operations. Arup is a global collective of designers, consultants, and experts dedicated to sustainable development, delivering projects for clients and communities and undertaking socially useful work. For more than 75 years, our shared purpose, values, and collaborative approach have shaped our work.
We actively promote a diverse and inclusive workforce, guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Our employee networks support inclusion across race, ethnicity, cross-cultural working, gender equity, LGBTQ identity, and disability. AMS partners with Arup on contingent recruitment, connecting organisations with interim and temporary professionals. We are committed to supporting candidates throughout the recruitment process and can work with Arup to identify reasonable adjustments or other support needs.
last updated 44 week of 2026