Senior Consulting Engineer (Rapid7, SentinelOne, AWS)

Crawley

£60k - £80k

Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional ready to lead complex projects and make a tangible impact? We're looking for a Senior Cyber Engineer, with experience in designing and deploying Rapid7, SentinelOne, (or similar XDR, MDR, SIEM, ) in an AWS environment, for our client's growing team in Crawley. The role will be a mixture of office and remote based work, with travel to client sites where needed. Hybrid can be flexible for the right skills and experience.

This is a client-facing, delivery focused role suited for someone with deep technical expertise and a strategic mindset. Alongside a starting salary of between £60k - £80k, they offer some excellent benefits including delivery bonus (averaging between £10k - £25k), overtime, commission, 29 days holiday (progressing up to 33), medical and dental coverage, and more.

What You'll Do:

• Lead Projects: Oversee end-to-end delivery of large-scale cyber resilience initiatives, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with client goals.
• Design Secure Architectures: Shape robust, scalable, and secure solutions using industry best practices and advanced security frameworks.
• Drive Incident Response: Manage and coordinate responses to security incidents, ensuring swift resolution and minimal disruption.
• Engage Clients: Act as a trusted advisor, delivering tailored solutions and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work closely with infrastructure, networking, cloud (AWS), virtualisation (Nutanix, VMware), storage, and IT ops teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead Agile Delivery: Run Agile ceremonies, promote continuous improvement, and guide teams through effective sprint execution.
• Mentor Others: Support junior consultants with technical development and Agile best practices.
• Support Growth: Contribute to proposals, presentations, and service development efforts.
• Share Knowledge: Develop and distribute best practices to strengthen the cyber resilience function.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience in threat intelligence, risk management, incident response, compliance (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001), and security architecture.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • SIEM
  • Rapid7, InsightIDR
  • XDR (SentinelOne preferred)
  • Firewalls (Fortinet preferred)
  • PAM (Delinea preferred)
  • SSE/ZTNA (Netskope preferred)
  • Cloud security/CNAPP
  • SOAR
  • Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• A track record of leading complex cybersecurity projects.
• Strong client engagement and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical knowledge of Agile methodologies and ceremonies.
• Experience mentoring junior colleagues and fostering team growth.
• Ability to work across disciplines including infrastructure, networking (Extreme), cloud, and IT operations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Adaptability to evolving technologies and cross-functional environments.

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