Purpose of the role
We are seeking an experienced Cyber Engineering & Resilience to lead our Cyber Security Engineering and Resilience function.
This role is accountable for the strategy, performance, and continuous improvement of security platforms, detection capabilities, automation, and resilience services that protect critical business operations and support organisational objectives.
You will drive the security and resilience roadmap, ensuring security controls, tooling, and services remain effective against an evolving threat landscape.
What you'll do
- Lead the Cyber Security Engineering & Resilience function, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable security services.
- Own the delivery, operation, and optimisation of security platforms across cloud, endpoint, identity, collaboration, and infrastructure environments.
- Drive cyber resilience initiatives, ensuring critical services can withstand and recover from disruption.
- Enhance threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring capabilities.
- Develop automation and engineering solutions to improve operational efficiency and security outcomes.
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, investigations, and service recovery activities.
- Define service roadmaps, technical standards, KPIs, and continuous improvement plans.
- Partner with technology, risk, resilience, and business stakeholders to strengthen security posture and reduce risk.
The skills you'll need
- Proven leadership experience within Cyber Security Engineering, Security Operations, or Cyber Resilience.
- Strong experience managing enterprise security platforms within a Microsoft ecosystem, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Cloud or Microsoft Sentinel.
- Expertise across cloud, identity, endpoint, infrastructure, and collaboration security.
- Experience implementing security automation, detection engineering, and vulnerability management capabilities.
- Strong understanding of cyber resilience, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
- Experience leading complex security initiatives within large scale enterprise environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
About the client
Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Guided by its values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Arup creates and contributes to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all.
Arup's internal employee networks support their inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion - creating a space for everyone to express themselves and make a positive difference.