Lead Cybersecurity Analytics Engineer

Lead Cybersecurity Analytics Engineer

Location: Sheffield 3 days perweek

Inside IR35: Rate £500.00 - £535.00 pd

What you'll be doing:

• Ingest, provision and enhance raw datasets, enriched tables and curated data assets for cybersecurity use cases
• Improve reliability and frequency of data ingestion, expanding Real Time coverage
• Design and build data pipelines that collect, transport and deliver data from multiple internal and external sources
• Deliver ETL workflows using advanced data manipulation and programmatic processing to ensure the right data is available at each stage
• Onboard and validate new data sources using existing schemas, including exploratory analysis to define new schemas
• Support and enhance ingestion infrastructure, pipelines and production operations for critical analytics needs
• Contribute to data engineering and platform engineering activities across data acquisition, cloud infrastructure and analytics platform support

What you'll bring:

• A strong grasp of SRE principles for managing large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with SRE and Azure DevOps practices
• Ability to script and code (Bash/PowerShell, Azure CLI; Python/C#/Java) and query data (SQL, Kusto query language)
• Experience with software version control and CI/CD workflows (eg, GitHub)
• Demonstrable Linux administration and Scripting, plus an understanding of storage, networking fundamentals and system principles
• Technical breadth across data engineering: pipelines, automation, productionisation and optimisation, including Real Time analytics for large-scale datasets
• Comfort working with cloud and big data technologies (Azure preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (eg, Terraform)

Additional information:

• Cybersecurity-specific knowledge is preferred, but not essential-CSA will support your growth across domains
• A positive attitude, strong work ethic and genuine passion for learning are key

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join a supportive team where you can build deeper technical capability and make a real impact.