Cybersecurity Engineer
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About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our growing security team. This is a key technical role focused on building, optimising, and advancing our security capabilities across systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
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Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
to join our growing security team.
This is a key technical role focused on building, optimising, and advancing our security capabilities across systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure.
You will play a critical part in strengthening our ability to detect, respond to, and prevent threats—working at the forefront of modern security engineering, automation, and cloud security.
This is a permanent, full-time, hybrid role based in our offices in Kerry.
About The Role
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you will design and implement robust security controls that protect the organisation’s systems and data.
You will work hands-on with leading security technologies, developing detection logic, integrating threat intelligence, and improving visibility across the environment.
This role offers the opportunity to operate with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating with cross-functional teams across IT, cloud, architecture, and DevOps.
You will also contribute to mentoring team members and driving continuous improvement in our security posture.
Threat Detection & Monitoring
- Design, build, and optimise detection use cases within SIEM and SOAR platforms.
- Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection logic.
- Analyse security events to identify gaps in visibility or detection capability .
- Work with analysts to improve alert quality and reduce false positives.
Incident Response & Vulnerability Management
- Act as an escalation point for complex security incidents.
- Perform deep technical investigations into suspicious activity, malware, and breaches.
- Support incident response efforts and drive improvements based on lessons learned.
- Contribute to the automation of detection and response workflows.
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
- Configure and monitor security controls across cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Validate that security baselines and configurations align with best practices .
- Support secure design for new projects and infrastructure changes .
Collaboration & Mentorship
- Work closely with IT, cloud, and DevOps teams to embed security into day-to-day operations.
- Contribute to architectural reviews and threat modelling exercises.
- Mentor engineers and SOC analysts, supporting team development and capability building.
- Promote security best practices across the organisation.
Documentation And Continuous Improvement
- Develop and maintain documentation, playbooks, and engineering runbooks.
- Recommend and implement improvements to tools, processes, and detection capabilities.
- Help drive increased automation, efficiency, and maturity across security operations.
Essential
- 5+ years’ experience in cybersecurity engineering or security operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, and EDR platforms (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Palo Alto XSIAM, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Defender, or similar).
- Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-37r2, NIST SP 800-61r).
- Solid understanding of attacker techniques and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Experience designing and implementing technical security controls.
- Practical experience in incident response and vulnerability management.
- Ability to analyse complex problems and work independently.
Desirable
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, SC-200, AZ-500, or relevant GIAC certifications.
- Experience with scripting or automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash).
- Exposure to DevSecOps practices and cloud-native security.
- Experience with detection engineering (e.g., Sigma, detection-as-code).
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members.
Why Join Us?
- Work in a high-impact, technically challenging role.
- Help shape and evolve modern cybersecurity capabilities.
- Collaborate with a forward-thinking, cross-functional team.
- Opportunities for growth, learning, and career progression.
- If you’re passionate about cybersecurity engineering and want to play a key role in strengthening and evolving security in a complex environment, we’d love to hear from you.
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