Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Summary: The role of Senior Cybersecurity Engineer focuses on leading cybersecurity due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, assessing security risks, and developing integration strategies. The position requires collaboration with various teams to evaluate cyber risk impacts on deal valuations and conducting rapid security assessments within tight timelines. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in M&A security and experience in designing secure architectures for technology consolidation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead cybersecurity due diligence efforts for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, identifying security risks, technical debt, and remediation costs
• Develop and execute security integration strategies for post-merger technology consolidation
• Design secure separation architectures for carve-out scenarios, ensuring clean data segregation and minimal business disruption
• Assess target company security postures, identifying vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and cultural differences in security practices
• Collaborate with legal, compliance, and business teams to evaluate cyber risk impact on deal valuations
• Conduct rapid security assessments of target environments within tight M&A timelines

Key Skills:

• Deep expertise in cybersecurity, particularly in mergers and acquisitions
• Experience in leading cybersecurity due diligence efforts
• Strong understanding of security integration strategies and secure separation architectures
• Ability to assess security postures and identify vulnerabilities
• Collaboration skills with legal, compliance, and business teams
• Experience conducting rapid security assessments

Salary (Rate): £90,000 yearly

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT