Top Cyber Security Jobs in Edinburgh

Assesses customers’ Falcon environments, recommends security improvements and remediation, identifies standards misalignment, manages customer issues within SLAs, creates service reports, and coordinates with internal support teams to resolve technical problems. The role requires strong customer communication, operating-system knowledge, threat detection and incident-response expertise, and the ability to guide customers toward improved security posture.

Lead the infrastructure transformation roadmap across networking, platforms, security, identity, supply chain, and logistics systems. Define programme objectives, governance, success measures, budgets, risks, dependencies, and milestones across multiple teams. Partner with technical leaders and business stakeholders to ensure feasibility and quality while promoting automation, observability, zero-trust security, continuous improvement, and healthy team performance.

Create and improve governance, risk, and compliance security labs, challenges, and learning content. Research regulations and standards, develop practical simulations, peer-review cyber ranges, simplify complex cybersecurity concepts, and advise engineering and product teams on security and privacy by design. The role requires GRC audit experience, knowledge of major compliance frameworks, strong cybersecurity fundamentals, and the ability to create engaging training for technical and non-technical users.

Lead security incident response and digital forensic investigations, act as Incident Commander, monitor and analyze security events, build scripts and automated workflows (Python), use SIEM and cloud (AWS/GCP) tooling, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team remediation, participate in on-call rota aligned to UK/EMEA hours.

Lead a team of 10 Data Security Specialist Account Executives across EMEA and APJ. Responsibilities include recruiting and coaching sales talent, managing regional business plans and forecasts, collaborating with sales, marketing, product, services, and partners, and driving revenue attainment. The role requires software or security sales experience, data security leadership, regional management, C-level selling, and familiarity with AI/ML technologies.

Leads technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; solves production issues; improves engineering quality, reliability, security, testing, and observability; and mentors engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable architectures, write production code, lead architecture decisions, solve complex engineering problems, and drive initiatives from concept through production. Improve engineering quality across testing, security, observability, and development practices while mentoring engineers and coordinating work across teams and products.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

Designs, builds, tests, and improves cloud security labs, challenges, and learning content for a cyber resilience platform. The role focuses on AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, SIEM, CSPM/CNAPP, containers, Terraform, serverless technologies, identity, access, networking, monitoring, and DevSecOps. Responsibilities include creating realistic attack-and-defense simulations, translating technical research into accessible content, collaborating with engineering and product teams, and supporting cloud security content strategy.

Provides strategic procurement and contract advice for public and private-sector clients. Responsibilities include managing end-to-end procurement services, tender preparation, supplier engagement, contract award, post-contract management, commercial modeling, and procurement strategy development. The role also supports bids, business development, team leadership, and client stakeholder management across major infrastructure, utilities, defense, renewables, and transformation projects.

Provides on-site security for client premises by patrolling facilities, monitoring surveillance systems, responding to alarms and emergencies, conducting inspections, enforcing access controls, identifying risks, and supporting security protocols and awareness training. The role requires strong observation, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and flexibility to work 12-hour shifts, weekends, and holidays.

Provides visible security, patrols, CCTV and control room monitoring at a shopping centre. Responds to incidents, emergencies and customer concerns; manages access, alarms, visitors, lost property, contractors and deliveries. Completes incident reports, audits, compliance paperwork and life-safety checks while enforcing fire, health and safety, and site procedures. Requires a valid SIA Security Licence, customer-facing security experience, strong communication, accurate record keeping and flexible shift availability.

Lead technical and strategic security engineering services for major construction and fit-out projects. Responsibilities include risk assessments, mitigation strategies, operational requirements, security master planning, physical security design, electronic security systems design, and counter-terrorism guidance covering hostile vehicle mitigation, blast protection, and ballistics. The role also requires security consultancy expertise, business development experience, relevant qualifications, and professional security credentials or equivalent commitment to continuing development.

Maintain and improve Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, security monitoring, endpoint protection, log ingestion, and detection capabilities. Support application onboarding, cloud security controls, audits, incident response, investigations, AI-driven security use cases, and stakeholder collaboration. The role also mentors junior team members and helps maintain operational KPIs, KRIs, and standards.

Leads OT security monitoring and triage operations, investigates suspicious activity across industrial networks, validates detections, and escalates findings to incident responders and threat hunters. Maintains the Dragos Platform for customers, including asset classification, vulnerability management, detection tuning, and hardening recommendations. Produces incident reports, mentors analysts, collaborates across cybersecurity teams, and develops expertise in ICS protocols, adversary tactics, and industrial threat intelligence. The role includes shift-based coverage and occasional weekend or on-call work.

Lead security engineering delivery for complex, security-sensitive infrastructure projects. Define threats, vulnerabilities, operational requirements, risk treatments, and integrated physical, electronic, personnel, procedural, and digital security solutions. Coordinate with multidisciplinary design teams, assure technical outputs, manage scope, budgets, resources, quality, and client relationships, and mentor less-experienced engineers. Support bids, proposals, service development, and professional growth while contributing across the built-asset lifecycle.

Lead hands-on product security architecture across GitLab, including design reviews, threat modeling, systemic risk remediation, security standards, prototypes, and reusable developer guardrails. Partner with engineering and product leaders, secure distributed systems and software supply chains, guide AI coding tool security, mentor security engineers, and influence technical direction through proactive architecture and clear communication.

Lead complex cybersecurity incident investigations across on-premises and cloud environments. Set investigative objectives, correlate evidence, reconstruct timelines, assess compromise and exfiltration, direct containment and recovery recommendations, and communicate findings to technical teams, executives, legal, compliance, and engineering stakeholders. Coordinate specialists, manage global follow-the-sun investigations, maintain documentation, mentor colleagues, and support reporting and lessons learned.

Lead cybersecurity infrastructure response for enterprise customers during high-impact incidents. Responsibilities include Active Directory and Entra ID containment and recovery, infrastructure evidence collection and analysis, privileged access assessment, post-breach hardening, technical prioritization, customer briefings, documentation, and mentoring. The role supports hybrid on-premises and cloud environments and requires flexibility for non-standard hours and UK security screening.

Lead hypothesis-driven threat hunts across customer environments, correlating endpoint, cloud, identity, network, and third-party telemetry. Investigate adversary activity, determine compromise scope, identify visibility gaps, author queries and automation, and convert findings into detections, mitigations, threat intelligence, and architectural improvements. Coordinate hunt workstreams during major incidents, brief customers and executives, document evidence, mentor colleagues, and support post-incident analysis.

Own strategic customer relationships for Upwind’s cloud security platform, managing the post-sale journey from onboarding through renewal and expansion. Drive adoption, value realization, executive alignment, joint success planning, QBRs, and measurable security outcomes. Partner with Sales, Technical Account Managers, Solutions Architects, and Product teams to support retention, identify growth opportunities, and connect technical capabilities to business impact and ROI.

Build BLP’s core software across infrastructure, backend, machine learning, and product extension platforms. Responsibilities include operating secure and observable cloud infrastructure, developing performant distributed systems, applying AI to business problems, and enabling customer process automation. The role emphasizes formal reasoning, correctness by construction, maintainable systems, type systems, and functional programming. Work is available onsite in Zurich or remotely within Europe.