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Security Platforms Engineer

Job details
Posting date: 04 December 2025
Salary: £44,447 to £52,442 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 December 2025
Location: FY4 5ES
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 438961/1

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Summary

Do you want the chance to work on the some of the latest cyber security platforms across public and private cloud environments?

Do you want to contribute to ensuring our security platforms provide the necessary controls to protect critical national infrastructure, and have the appropriate resilience and support?

We are looking for an experienced infrastructure engineers or cyber security professionals to assist us implementing security controls to protect our infrastructure and automate detection and response.

Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.

As a Security Platform Engineer (at the Senior Executive Officer grade) you will deal with the day-to-day management and development of infrastructure products and contribute towards their design.

You will be responsible for the operational stability of the infrastructure solutions, and be able to affect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products.

You will collaborate with seniors and own Infrastructure Development Lifecycle Process as part of a delivery team focused on one or more products.

You will help ensure our security platforms are providing the required controls, in alignment with the NIST cyber security framework and CIS Critical Security Controls.

You will manage enterprise grade security platforms across multiple aspects of cyber security including:

  • Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms.
  • Content Delivery Networks and Web Application Firewalls.
  • Extended Detection and Response & Anti Malware.
  • Threat Intelligence.
  • Orchestration and Automation.
  • Vulnerability Management & Compliance.

Your role will also include:

  • Day to day management of self-hosted and SaaS platforms.
  • Identifying future requirements and implementation of new functionality.
  • Dealing with incidents and problems.
  • Developing protection controls and detection alerts, and feeding them into our Cyber Security Ecosystem.
  • Documenting solutions.
  • Working with other teams within Digital Security and the Security Practice to deliver security outcomes.

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