Principal Consulting Engineer (Rapid7, SentinelOne, AWS)
Crawley
£80k - £120k
Are you an experienced cybersecurity professional ready to lead complex projects and make a tangible impact? We're looking for a Principal Cyber Engineer, with experience in designing and deploying Rapid7, SentinelOne, (or similar XDR, MDR, SIEM, ) in an AWS environment, for our clients growing team in Crawley. The role will be a mixture of office and remote based work, with travel to client sites where needed. Hybrid can be flexible for the right skills and experience.
This is a client-facing, delivery focused role suited for someone with deep technical expertise and a strategic mindset. Alongside a starting salary of between £80k - £120k, they offer some excellent benefits including delivery bonus (averaging between £10k - £25k), overtime, commission, 29 days holiday (progressing up to 33), medical and dental coverage, and more.
What You'll Do:
- Lead Projects: Oversee end-to-end delivery of large-scale cyber resilience initiatives, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with client goals.
- Design Secure Architectures: Shape robust, scalable, and secure solutions using industry best practices and advanced security frameworks.
- Drive Incident Response: Manage and coordinate responses to security incidents, ensuring swift resolution and minimal disruption.
- Engage Clients: Act as a trusted advisor, delivering tailored solutions and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
- Collaborate Across Disciplines: Work closely with infrastructure, networking, cloud (AWS), virtualisation (Nutanix, VMware), storage, and IT ops teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Lead Agile Delivery: Run Agile ceremonies, promote continuous improvement, and guide teams through effective sprint execution.
- Mentor Others: Support junior consultants with technical development and Agile best practices.
- Support Growth: Contribute to proposals, presentations, and service development efforts.
- Share Knowledge: Develop and distribute best practices to strengthen the cyber resilience function.
What You'll Bring:
- Proven experience in threat intelligence, risk management, incident response, compliance (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001), and security architecture.
- Hands-on experience with:
- SIEM
- Rapid7, InsightIDR
- XDR (SentinelOne preferred)
- Firewalls (Fortinet preferred)
- PAM (Delinea preferred)
- SSE/ZTNA (Netskope preferred)
- Cloud security/CNAPP
- SOAR
- Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- A track record of leading complex cybersecurity projects.
- Strong client engagement and stakeholder management skills.
- Practical knowledge of Agile methodologies and ceremonies.
- Experience mentoring junior colleagues and fostering team growth.
- Ability to work across disciplines including infrastructure, networking (Extreme), cloud, and IT operations.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Adaptability to evolving technologies and cross-functional environments.
If you are interested in the above role - Click the "Apply Now" button now for immediate review
Principal Rapid7 Engineer, Rapid7 Engineer, Principal Rapid7 Engineer, Cyber Engineer, Cyber Architect, Rapid7, Delinea, SIEM, XDR, Sentinel, Fortinet
Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment.
