Cyber Security Engineer

Job Description

As a Cyber Security Engineer, you will play an integral part in the safeguarding of Ecotricity's digital assets, data and IT infrastructure from potential cyber threats. You will be responsible for maintaining & continually improving robust security platforms and controls, whilst ensuring alignment with company policies.

We are looking for someone who is proactive beyond simply configuring security tools and use their experience and initiative to help drive the cyber initiative throughout the business using a range of security tools.

Whilst focussing on incident prevention is key, being prepared for a successful cyber attack is equally vital. Creating incident response playbooks, running tabletop exercises and simulations will be essential to ensure systems can be restored.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer, maintain, and continuously improve SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and security monitoring programmes
• Develop and tune high-fidelity detections to reduce false positives and improve signal

About You

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a SecOps, Security Engineering, or SOC Engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic)
• Experience securing & monitoring cloud security operations (Azure, AWS)
• Experience with endpoint security and detection tooling (e.g. Defender, CrowdStrike)

Solid understanding of:

• MITRE ATT&CK
• Vulnerability management
• Log sources across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network
• Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, Python, KQL, or similar)
• Incident response lifecycle

Desirable Experience

• Threat intelligence ingestion and analysis
• Threat hunting experience
• Security certifications (e.g. GCED, CISSP, CCSP, OSCP or equivalent experience)

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Fewer security incidents due to earlier detection and prevention
• Improved visibility, higher-quality alerts and reduced analyst fatigue
• Faster response times driven by automation and engineering improvements
• A demonstrably more proactive and mature security operations capability

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering Day
Hybrid Working
Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

The fast moving nature of the business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company- it's more than just green energy - the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.