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Security Engineer & Analyst Contracts
Contract Details
- 12-18 months (likely extension)
- Hybrid working (2-3 days/week on-site)
- Day rate: £500 - £600 (Inside IR35)
Security Engineer
Key Responsibilities
- Assess and challenge infrastructure / platform designs from a security perspective
- Identify vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and control gaps
- Drive hardening across Azure, networks, and hybrid workloads
- Strengthen segmentation, firewall policy, identity security, and logging
- Support incident-driven remediation and resilience improvements
Required Experience
- Strong hands-on infrastructure / platform engineering background
- Azure & hybrid cloud security expertise
- Network security & segmentation (firewalls, SD-WAN)
- Experience with enterprise security controls & remediation
- Ability to perform deep technical analysis
- Clear stakeholder communication
Security Analyst
Key Responsibilities
- Advanced Microsoft Defender analysis & optimisation
- Write, tune, and troubleshoot KQL queries
- Investigate alerts and support incident response workflows
- Liaise with SOC & technical teams
- Analyse ITSM backlog / ticket trends
- Recommend improvements to Conditional Access & ASR policies
Required Experience
- Strong Microsoft Defender expertise
- Advanced KQL capability (hands-on)
- SO& incident investigation background
- Analytical mindset with operational focus
- Strong communication & user engagement skills