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  • Title:

    Cyber Engineer

  • Location:

    Newport

  • Salary:

    £67.27 - £90.00 per hour

  • Contact:

    Anoup Bassi

  • Contact email:

    btrinfo@belcan.com

  • Job ref:

    JO0000027409_1763736969

  • Published:

    5 days ago

  • Duration:

    6 Months

  • Expiry date:

    2025-12-21

  • Startdate:

    21/11/2025

Job Title: Cyber Engineer - 6 Month Contract

Location: Newport, Wales - Full Time On Site

Full Time: 37 hours per week

Pay Rate: From £67 per hour

* DV & BPSS Clearance Required for this role *

What You Will Do:

Belcan are currently working with one of the global leaders in the Aviation/Aerospace industry, and we are looking for a Cyber Engineer to join our client on a 6 month contract. This role requires a strong cyber security professional to stand as an escalation point for all SOC operational engineering activity. You will be responsible for the transition of projects from the System Design team into the SOC operations ensuring impact analysis, capacity and availability management are considered prior to accepting new projects. You will also mentor/oversee members of the SOC Engineering team, ensuring all operational tasks are completed and work tickets updated/closed on time.

Responsibilities

  • Support SOC Engineers & Analyst activity
  • Supports change & release management activity
  • Toolset availability and capacity management review and escalation
  • Maintain currency in security concepts, tools and best practices
  • Engagement with the R&D Cyber Defence Centre for Cyber Solutions/Products

Skill Set

Essential

  • Good knowledge of multiple SOC tooling including IDPS/Firewalls/SIEM/Splunk/Email & Web Protection etc.
  • Experience of implementing and fault finding Firewall technologies including Cisco ASR/Palo Alto/Fortinet
  • Excellent understanding of network technologies
  • Experience of Scripting and programming
  • Experience of Windows and RedHat server systems and implementation of CIS hardening

Desirable

Knowledge of some of the following would be advantageous:

vCenter

Splunk

Cisco Networking (LAN and WAN)

Nessus Tenable

RHEL

Satellite

Fortinet

VMware ESXI with vSAN

Powershell automation and scripting

Patching (applications, WSUS)

SQL and MariaDB

VMExplorer Backup and Restores

Jira

CheckMK

ISO 27001 and cyber essentials

Windows 11, Server 2019, Server 2022

Client management

McAfee SIEM

Data Centre knowledge

AD / LDAP (IDM and PAM)

Disaster recovery and service continuity

Storage and backup solutions

Syslog management

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch soon!

This vacancy is being advertised by Belcan