Job Advert: Contract Cyber Engineer (DV Cleared)

📍 Newport| 💼 6-month contract + likely extension
🏢 Fully onsite| 💷 Up to £90 per hour (Umbrella)
🔐 DV Clearance required / British Nationals only

We’re recruiting for an experienced Contract Cyber Engineer to join a major defence cyber security function. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys hands-on technical problem solving, acting as a senior point of escalation, and supporting a high-performance Security Operations Centre (SOC).

You’ll work within a specialist cyber defence organisation, supporting the smooth running of security tools, leading operational engineering activity, and ensuring that new security projects transition successfully into the live environment.

The Role

As a Contract Cyber Engineer, you will:

• Act as the senior escalation point for SOC engineering issues

• Support SOC Analysts and Engineers with toolset faults, troubleshooting and ongoing operational work

• Oversee toolset availability, performance, and capacity

• Support change and release management, including planned upgrades and deployments

• Ensure new systems introduced by the design team can be supported operationally

• Maintain a strong awareness of emerging cyber technologies, tools and best practice

• Work with the wider Airbus Cyber Defence Centre on tooling and security product improvements

• Provide technical input into documentation, processes, and service support activities

This is a key position in a busy SOC environment, fully onsite, requiring strong communication skills and the ability to work across engineering, operations, and cyber security functions.

What You’ll Need (Essential)

• Strong working knowledge of core SOC tooling e.g. SIEM/Splunk, IDPS, Email/Web security, Firewalls

• Hands-on experience with Cisco ASR, Palo Alto or Fortinet firewalls

• Excellent understanding of network technologies(LAN/WAN, routing, switching)

• Experience with scripting or programming(PowerShell, Python, Bash etc.)

• Experience with Windows Server and RedHat (RHEL) administration, including CIS hardening

Desirable Skills

Experience with any of the following is beneficial:

• vCenter / VMware ESXi / vSAN

• Nessus / Tenable

• SQL / MariaDB

• CheckMK, Jira, Syslog management

• Patch management (WSUS etc.)

• AD / LDAP / PAM

• Backup/restore solutions

• Disaster recovery and service continuity

• ISO 27001 / Cyber Essentials