Senior Cyber Security Engineer (5138)


Company:	Social Security Scotland
Salary:	£49,401 to £59,152 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Dundee, DD1 4BF
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 3 days remote
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Sept 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

Location - Dundee or Glasgow

Hours - 35 hours per week

Closing Date – 14th October 2026 at 23:55

Reference - 5138

Employment Type - Permanent

Overview

Social Security Scotland is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to help secure the cloud platforms that deliver vital public services. This is a key role in a cloud first organisation, working to ensure solutions are secure by design, resilient, and compliant.

The Senior Cyber Security Engineer leads the design, implementation, and assurance of cyber security controls across cloud platforms, applications, and infrastructure. You will translate security policy and risk into practical cloud security solutions, working closely with Architecture, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and Product teams. Acting as a technical authority, you will provide hands-on expertise, assurance, and risk-based guidance, embedding security throughout the delivery lifecycle.

This is a Fixed Term Appointment opportunity for 47 months with the possibility of permanency dependent on business requirements.

The Cyber Security Engineer builds, develops, and configures tooling and processes to be secure. They build tooling to support pre-commit, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment through to production.

They have experience of operating systems, Networking, PKI and Cloud Security tools. They build Secure Configuration Management using Infrastructure as Code.

Identify, design and develop cyber security solutions across a wide variety of applications and infrastructure

Lead the implementation of cyber security policy and standards

Provide senior cyber security consultancy services (from risk assessments and audits to strategy development) across a variety of technology projects

Engage with the Technology Architecture team and support the design of technology solutions and architecture for a variety of projects and programmes

Engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, providing cyber security assurance and managing the change process for the implementation of cyber security strategy, standards and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure cloud architectures across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments, embedding security controls aligned to organisational policy and industry best practice.

• Lead the implementation of cyber security standards and controls across cloud platforms, influencing delivery teams and ensuring security is built in from the outset.

• Provide senior cyber security consultancy, including cloud risk assessments, threat modelling, architecture reviews, audits, and contribution to cyber strategy.

• Work closely with Architecture teams to shape secure target architectures and ensure security requirements are reflected in technical designs.

• Lead and enhance cloud security operations, including but not limited to identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and incident response.

• Design and implement automated security controls and assurance, including policy as code, secure configuration baselines, and continuous compliance.

• Translate security requirements into engineering level guidance, supporting developers and engineers to remediate issues and adopt secure coding and deployment practices.

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, providing security assurance, clear risk articulation, and support for change associated with security improvements.

• Act as a technical mentor, championing cloud security best practice and supporting the development of engineers and security practitioners.

• Design, review, and implement secure cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling, embedding security controls, configuration standards, and policy as code into automated deployment pipelines (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation), and providing assurance that environments are secure, consistent, and resilient.

Further Information

Social Security Scotland are a Disability Confident Employer. We will consider and implement any reasonable adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and during the course of your employment, should you be successful in securing a post. If you feel you may require assistance with any part of our recruitment process, please contact us at Recruitment@socialsecurity.gov.scot.

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