SysGroup Technology/Software

Senior Cyber Security Engineer (CyberArk & PAM)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom In person Full-time

The Role

  • SysGroup is
  • hiring a Senior Cyber Security Engineer specialising in privileged access
  • management, with CyberArk as the core platform. This is the senior tooling and
  • identity specialist role in the Cyber Security team under our 2026 operating
  • model: you own the design, deployment and health of the security tooling estate
  • across our managed clients, with PAM as your deepest expertise.

Beyond

  • CyberArk, the role carries breadth across the modern security stack: hands-on
  • experience with Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA) and working capability across EDR, SIEM,
  • vulnerability management and the wider cyber product set we operate for
  • clients.

You will report

to the Cyber Operations Lead and work closely with the SOC engineers, the

Pre-sales Security Consultant and the Platform & Infrastructure teams.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

  • CyberArk & privileged
  • access management
  • ·Own CyberArk design, deployment
  • and operation across managed clients: vaulting, session management, secrets
  • management and privileged threat analytics.
  • ·Design PAM onboarding
  • programmes for new clients: discovery, scoping, policy design and rollout.
  • ·Integrate PAM with the wider
  • identity stack: Entra ID, conditional access, MFA and just-in-time access
  • patterns.
  • ·Set privileged access standards
  • and evidence them for client audits (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus).
  • Security tooling &
  • engineering
  • ·Deploy, configure and maintain
  • the security tooling estate: EDR, SIEM integrations, vulnerability scanning and
  • email security.

·Support Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA)

  • deployment and policy work alongside the zero trust leads.
  • ·Own tooling health: version
  • currency, coverage gaps, tuning quality and integration reliability.
  • ·Automate deployment and
  • operational tasks with scripts and APIs; contribute to the shared automation
  • library.
  • Service & quality
  • ·Act as senior escalation for
  • identity and tooling incidents; support major incident response.
  • ·Document designs, runbooks and
  • standards to a level the wider team can operate from.
  • ·Contribute tooling and PAM
  • expertise to service reviews and solution scoping when needed.
  • ·Adopt AI-assisted workflows for
  • diagnostics, configuration review and documentation.

Experience

  • ·5+ years in security
  • engineering with 2+ years of hands-on CyberArk design and administration (PAM
  • Self-Hosted or Privilege Cloud).
  • ·Experience deploying or
  • operating Zscaler (ZIA/ZPA) and at least two of: EDR platforms, SIEM,
  • vulnerability management, email security.
  • ·Strong scripting capability
  • (PowerShell or Python) applied to security tooling automation and integration.
  • ·MSP/MSSP or multi-client
  • environment experience preferred; client audit exposure an advantage.

Certifications

  • ·Essential (or equivalent
  • hands-on experience): CyberArk Defender certification; CyberArk Sentry strongly
  • preferred.
  • ·Desirable: CyberArk Guardian,
  • Zscaler professional-level certification (ZIA/ZPA), Microsoft SC-300, SC-200,
  • AZ-500, or EDR vendor certifications.

Benefits

  • Why Join Us?
  • Joining Sysgroup means becoming part of a
  • dynamic and innovative team that is dedicated to excellence. We offer a
  • supportive, and collaborative work environment, where your ideas and
  • contributions are valued. Here are some of the benefits of working with us:

Competitive Compensation

  • We offer a competitive salary package,
  • including performance-based incentives, to reward your hard work and
  • achievements.

-Private Healthcare

-Life insurance

-Healthcare cash plan

-Pension

Growth Opportunities

  • We believe in investing in our employees'
  • professional development. You will have
  • your own individual development learning paths with access to various training
  • material and ongoing career advancement opportunities.

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