Security Engineer

Role Location – Any Accenture UK location

Salary: Competitive (based on experience)

Level: Accenture will be hiring at Associate Manager level

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which typically requires 5 years continuous UK address history usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

Our Engineering practice is a growing community of industry leading experts, covering Security Engineering, DevOps, Software Engineering and Quality Engineering. The Engineering practice prides itself on quality development practices and solving highly complex client problems whilst also providing a safe environment for engineering talent to grow and learn within the organisation.

As part of our Security Engineering team, you will be exposed to the latest technologies in a mixture of environments ranging from cloud, on-premises and hybrid as well as direct experience with security tooling to for incident detection, response and threat intelligence.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to join our team and play a key role in safeguarding client systems, applications and data. You will be tasked with designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions whilst proactively identifying risk and enforcing compliance with common security standards. The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for staying ahead of the evolving threat landscape.

Key responsibilities of the role are summarised below:

· Design, implement, and manage security tools, systems, and processes to protect infrastructure, applications, and data.

· Partnering with other engineering and security teams to embed security best practices

· Automation to support security tooling like SIEM tooling log ingestion

· Firewall and network management within hybrid cloud and on-premises environments

· Develop and maintain security policies, standards and procedures

· Conduct security assessments in the form of infrastructure reviews using assessment tooling such as CIS benchmarks

· Contribution to the development of the Security Engineering practice

· People management and training of direct reports