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Competitive salaries
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Senior Cyber Security Engineer (12 month FTC)

Salary £68,000 + discretionary bonus
Location Portsmouth (Hybrid)
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This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

The Vacancy

We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people! 

We’re recruiting for a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our team in Portsmouth. This is a 12-month fixed term contract opportunity, working 37 hours a week, with a minimum of 20% of this to be office based to promote collaboration and team working within the CIDO team and other colleagues across the business.


Want to know what we can offer you? 

  • 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) pro rata, with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
  • A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
  • A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
  • Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
  • Private medical insurance 
  • Health care cash plan called Medicash
  • Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
  • Access to counselling, legal and financial information
  • Electric car scheme
  • Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes

 

Here’s the facts about the role:

As Senior Cyber Security Engineer you’ll play a critical role in protecting VIVIDS data and IT infrastructure. Reporting to the Cyber Security Manager, you’ll act as a technical expert and trusted advisor, leading on security operations, risk management, and incident response. The role offers the opportunity to shape and enhance security practices across the organisation, ensuring systems, networks, and data remain resilient against evolving cyber threats.
 

In this role, you will take ownership of monitoring and responding to security threats, conducting risk assessments, and implementing robust security controls. You will design and maintain secure architectures, develop and enforce cyber security policies, and ensure all systems and projects adopt a security-first approach. Working closely with IT and other teams across the organisation, you’ll promote cyber awareness, contribute to employee training initiatives, and manage security incidents through to resolution. You will also collaborate with external stakeholders, proactively manage vulnerabilities, and ensure systems are regularly patched and compliant with industry standards.
 

A key focus of the role is continuous improvement and innovation, in line with VIVIDs values. You’ll stay ahead of emerging threats and technologies, recommending and implementing new solutions to strengthen security posture. Responsibilities include conducting audits, supporting compliance and accreditation activities, managing supplier security risk (including cloud services), and contributing to the organisation’s cyber security roadmap. You will also play an important role in strengthening disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring systems can be restored effectively and within agreed targets, and embedding security best practices across the wider IT function.
 

The successful candidate will have and proven experience in a similar role and strong user awareness and education. You’ll have experience implementing service improvements and an understanding of how to manage IT risks with cloud suppliers. You’ll have hands-on experience with SIEM tools or managed SOC services, building and maintaining security systems, and working with technologies such as intrusion detection, firewalls, anti-virus, authentication systems, and log management. You will demonstrate a solid knowledge and understanding of IT security, SIEM/SOC environments, Microsoft 365, Azure, Microsoft Defender, and cloud technologies. In addition, you will possess excellent skills in using technology to improve processes, strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, and the confidence to build effective stakeholder relationships while communicating complex security concepts clearly to a range of audiences. Please refer to the job spec and the person specification within this for the full criteria.


Interviews are due to take place 4 and 6 August (subject to change).

The Company

We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.

Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.

We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.

This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.

Living VIVID

As a ‘people’ business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people’s development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.

Buy / sell
annual leave

Pension
scheme

Smart
working

From 26 days holiday per year

Private medical / medicash benefits

Enhanced
paternity / maternity leave

Qualification funding support

Electric car scheme

We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.

We’re a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.

If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us
on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help. 

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