IT Security Engineer
6 days ago
Southend-on-Sea
IT Security Engineer Southend, South Essex (Onsite) Up to £65,000 + excellent benefits Full-Time | Permanent Looking to take ownership of security in a business where your impact is visible? We're working with a well-established, technology-led organisation who are investing in their cyber capability and looking for an IT Security Engineer to play a key role in protecting their systems, infrastructure, and data. This is a hands-on position where you'll lead on threat detection, incident response, and continuous security improvement across the business. What You'll Be Doing • Monitoring and analysing security events (SIEM, endpoints, networks), • Investigating incidents, performing root cause analysis and remediation, • Identifying vulnerabilities and driving proactive security improvements, • Acting as the go-to escalation point for security issues, • Supporting compliance with security standards and best practice, • Experience in a cybersecurity / IT security role, • Strong knowledge of security tools (SIEM (Sentinel), EDR/XDR, firewalls, IDS), • Experience working in a SOC/NOC or similar environment, • Good understanding of security frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR etc.), • Security certifications (Security+, CEH, CISM, CISA), • Up to £65,000 salary, • Flexitime + early Friday finish, • 24 days holiday + bank holidays, • Pension (6-7%), life assurance & sick pay, • Health cash plan & EAP Hit apply to upload your CV or contact Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.