Security Operations Engineer

About this role

Job Title: Security Operations Engineer

Employment type: Full time, permanent. Hybrid, 2-3 days a week in the Manchester office.

We're looking for a skilled and proactive Security Operations Engineer to help protect AccessPay's people, platforms and customers. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Cyber Security team, where you'll play a key role in monitoring, detecting and responding to security threats while continuously improving our security capabilities.

Working closely with the Cyber Security Manager and Engineering teams, you'll help ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle, strengthen our detection and response capabilities, and support the delivery of a secure-by-design culture. If you're passionate about cyber security, enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to work with modern security technologies, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, manage and continually improve AccessPay's security operations capability across cloud, endpoint, network and application environments.
• Lead the investigation, triage and response to security incidents, helping to minimise risk and improve resilience.
• Develop and optimise detection rules, automations and security tooling to improve threat detection and response.
• Work closely with Engineering teams to identify vulnerabilities and embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Coordinate vulnerability management activities, from scanning and prioritisation through to remediation and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI-powered security tooling and automation to strengthen detection capabilities, improve operational efficiency and support proactive threat management.

Skills Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience working within a Security Operations, Cyber Security or Information Security role.
• Strong scripting or programming skills (such as Python or PowerShell) to build automations and integrations.
• Experience using application security testing methodologies such as SAST, DAST, SCA and SBOM.
• Knowledge of security monitoring technologies, SIEM platforms, vulnerability management and incident response.
• An understanding of security frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials or SWIFT CSP.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience with cloud security, security automation, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and AI-enabled security tooling would be advantageous.

Why join us?

• Great Place to Work® certified — 3 years running
• A supportive, collaborative team who love what they do
• Hybrid working

Benefits*

• 25 days’ holiday plus public holidays increasing with length of service.
• Birthday off work.
• 2 paid volunteer days a year
• Holiday purchase scheme
• We operate a salary exchange pension scheme which you will be auto-enrolled into from day one of employment.
• £240 yearly wellbeing allowance
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health care cash plan
• Free breakfast & lunch when in the Manchester office
• Discounted parking in Manchester
• Access to training – both internal and external
• We plant a tree for every new joiner that joins us!
• We are a dog-friendly office
• And many more!

Our values

Our employees live by our company values

Always Learning: Our team are a naturally inquisitive bunch, always striving to become experts in our field. We are committed to sharing knowledge and skills with our colleagues and customers. AccessPay provides an environment that fosters personal development and professional growth for all of our people.

Supportive: Helpfulness sits at the heart of our culture – when we win, we win as a team. We agree on shared goals, collaborate constantly, and drive relentlessly in pursuit of those goals. We also understand the importance of fun, both working hard and celebrating our successes.

*Driven to Achieve:*We are passionate and energetic – whatever the mission. When we encounter challenges we show courage, resilience, and initiative to overcome them.

Committed to Excellence: Through our technical prowess, creativity, personal integrity and accountability, we deliver exceptional outcomes and exceed expectations time and time again.

• Permanent
• Full time
• £35,000 - £40,000
• Hybrid (Manchester, United Kingdom)
• GSI

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