Eir business talent are currently inviting applications for a Cyber Operations Engineer role. This is a initial Permanent Role. The role is based in Dublin and operates on a hybrid working model.
Initial Success factors
Establish a baseline of current tooling performance, controls coverage and effectiveness
Identify opportunities for removing manual configuration management and cyber control changes, to improve incident response and remediation effort.
Key Responsibilities:
Maintain and continuously improve the configuration and effectiveness of cyber security tools and platforms across
Email security controls
Endpoint and device security (EDR/MDR, hardening)
Data, Identity and access security controls
Cloud security controls and native security services
Network security & Application security tooling (where applicable)
Collaborating with Threat Intelligence & Hunting team, Vulnerability team and Cyber Engineering & Architecture to
Identify current tooling and/or control gaps and weaknesses
Recommend and implement configuration or policy improvements
Design and implement preventive and detective control improvements based on incident learnings.
Partner with the SOC to
Improve detection coverage and fidelity
Reduce false positives and alert fatigue
Ensure controls align with real‑world attack techniques
Support governance and oversight of security tooling by
Ensuring configurations align with approved standards and policies
Maintaining documentation of control intent and configuration rationale
Support Cyber Engineering & Architecture with insights and contributions on cyber tooling selection, control design decisions and effectiveness of cyber platforms.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security configuration standards, baseline cyber standards and operational runbooks
Assist in the roll‑out of new cyber tooling, to transition into operational and support management, with supporting third parties.
Support audits and assessments by providing evidence of control configurations and operational procedures
Your Profile
Extensive experience in cybersecurity and/or IT industry experience, with at least 4 years hands on experience in relevant roles (security operations, security engineering, infrastructure or cloud engineering)
Demonstrable experience configuring, operating, and improving enterprise‑scale security controls
Experience working in close partnership with SOC and IT operations teams
Practical experience with cyber platforms such Crowdstrike, Microsoft Purview, Palo Alto
Relevant Cyber qualifications e.g. CISSP, GCIH, Cloud Security certs, Security+, or similar relevant qualifications
This role is not entry‑level and assumes prior hands‑on experience configuring and tuning IT and/or security tooling across multiple cyber domains (network, cloud, endpoint, email, identity).
Strong understanding of modern enterprise security controls and how they fail in practice
Comfortable working with configuration management, change control, and operational governance processes.
Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:
Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern attacker techniques.
Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in the location specified or currently hold a valid appropriate long term work Visa to apply.
Ref:EET7992
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