Cyber Security Engineer - Zero Trust

The Security Engineer is a member of the Security Engineering team within the Cyber Defence Centre, and reports to the Security Engineering Manager. The purpose of this role is to provide security related technical and…

Pay rate £350 – £380/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 17 September 2026

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About this contract

The Security Engineer is a member of the Security Engineering team within the Cyber Defence Centre, and reports to the Security Engineering Manager. The purpose of this role is to provide security related technical and functional support for DLG security tooling and services, overseeing the delivery of security services to a high standard, and maintaining the health and effectiveness of controls to ensure we are adequately protected against existing and horizon threats identified by our Threat Intelligence and Operational Security teams

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

Maintaining the overall security integrity.
.Improving secure, continuous integration pipelines whilst working closely with our developers to advise on standard methodology
Supporting with the delivery of projects and change programmes ensuring that they align to the security architecture framework and that solutions meet relevant information security fundamentals
Maintaining a technical assurance approach that provides confidence to colleagues whilst ensuring that the value of proposed changes will be achieve
Taking responsibility and acting as a technical SME for securing DLG's environments in line with compliance commitment
Ensuring security technical platforms are configured to optimise the overall security offered
Improving SIEM coverage of DLG's overall environment
Making sure that all changes to the production environment have been reviewed and approve
Communicating and building relationships at various levels with an ability to discuss deep technical concepts with counterparts from our suppliers but also communicating at a higher level with project managers and programme leads to convey the processes and timings of programme and project deliver
Developing technical security standards and ensuring all changes are in line with the network security architecture, ISMR's and adhere to PCI/DSS standards and any other regulatory requirements
Hands-on Knowledge on enhancing /MS tools like defender, purview ,zero trust ,handing incidents, finetuning, and improving tools feature functionality etc is a MUST

Pracyva is one of THE FASTEST GROWING specialized RecruitmentConsulting firm in UK and Europe… Pracyva Limited has local presence across UK , Europe ( Ireland, Netherlands , Poland ,Germany ), USA, Middle East  and India , serving Top IT clients for large volumes ..We are currently hiring for our Reputed client

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