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# Security Engineer - MOD/Defence - DV Cleared

- **Company:** The Talent Locker
- **Location:** Farnborough, UK
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Audit Trail, Cyber Security, System Configuration, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Role-Based Access Control, Mod Security, Security Information and Event Management, Systems Integration, Load Balancing, Mitre Att&ck, Devsecops, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5889017651

## About the Role

Are you a Security Engineer with experience across privileged access management, identity security or enterprise security tooling?

This is a hands-on security engineering role working within a highly secure Defence and National Security environment. You'll maintain and improve security platforms controlling privileged access, credentials and administrative activity across critical infrastructure.

There is also a requirement within the team for Elastic SIEM capability, so if you have strong Elastic experience alongside your security engineering background, that would also be relevant., * Hands-on Security Engineering within complex environments.

 * Privileged Access Management (PAM) or identity security solutions.
 * Active Directory, identity providers, privileged and service accounts.
 * Vulnerability scanning, EDR or SIEM tooling.
 * Elastic SIEM experience would be a strong advantage.
 * Understanding of RBAC, credential management and security monitoring.

Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, ATT&CK or MOD security environments would also be useful.

## Description

You'll work across identity, privileged access and wider security infrastructure, including:

 * Managing passwords, SSH keys, API keys and privileged credentials.
 * Configuring and troubleshooting automated password and credential rotation.
 * Running discovery scans across Active Directory and network environments.
 * Managing RBAC, permissions and user/group access.
 * Monitoring privileged sessions and investigating failed authentication activity.
 * Maintaining, patching and upgrading security platforms.
 * Reviewing audit logs and integrating security events with SIEM tooling.
 * Troubleshooting firewalls, load balancers and connectivity issues.