Top Cyber Security Jobs in Manchester

Manage vulnerability scanning across IT endpoints, assess security risks, coordinate testing and remediation, explain patching urgency to technical and non-technical teams, support governance and audits, monitor emerging threats, document findings, and ensure compliance with security requirements and PCI DSS.

Leads end-to-end delivery of complex technical programmes across secure access and hosting. Develops roadmaps, manages priorities, budgets, vendors, risks and delivery performance, and reports progress to senior stakeholders. The role partners across engineering, product and business teams, removes delivery barriers, and promotes agile, product-led ways of working. It also involves coaching multidisciplinary teams, improving delivery practices, and ensuring secure, stable services and measurable business value.

Conducts advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Responsibilities include discovering and exploiting systemic vulnerabilities, penetration testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits, researching AI and agentic security threats, building automated research tooling, coordinating remediation, mentoring security professionals, and communicating findings to engineering and security communities.

Conduct advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Identify and exploit novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities; develop proof-of-concept exploits, testing methodologies, and research automation; assess AI attack vectors and open-source dependencies; drive remediation and security improvements; advise engineering teams, contribute to roadmaps, mentor researchers, and share findings with the security community.

Design and govern the end-to-end architecture of Era4’s Kubernetes-based AI infrastructure. The role develops platform blueprints, technical standards, high- and low-level designs, multi-tenant GPU cloud architectures, capacity plans, and technology roadmaps. It coordinates Kubernetes, GPU, networking, storage, automation, security, observability, billing, and cloud services while guiding platform engineering and operations teams toward secure, scalable, reliable, and commercially viable solutions.

Lead Samsara’s vulnerability management and application security programs across cloud, firmware, IoT, and corporate systems. Define technical strategy, automate vulnerability detection and response, reduce remediation time, guide engineering teams, mentor security engineers, investigate critical vulnerabilities, and support incident response. The role requires strong AWS, programming, vulnerability management, application security testing, AI/LLM, and security automation expertise.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Owns GitLab’s global security awareness and human-risk program, including training, phishing simulations, behavior-change initiatives, security culture campaigns, multimedia content, platform administration, reporting, vendor management, policy support, audit evidence, and remediation tracking. The role requires measurable risk reduction across a globally distributed enterprise and strategic influence across technical and non-technical teams.

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 end-to-end incident response for high-severity security events across cloud environments, perform DFIR investigations, build detection and automation (including AI-assisted) workflows, partner cross-functionally, produce executive communications and RCAs, maintain runbooks/playbooks, and mentor other engineers within a 24/7 global on-call model.

Manage the EMEA Security Operations Center within a global 24/7 operation. Responsibilities include defining processes, workflows, and playbooks; maintaining shift coverage and quality assurance; coaching analysts; developing training; partnering with Product, Support, and security teams; improving incident response capabilities; tracking objectives and key results; operationalizing new services; and representing the company in public speaking engagements.

Owns an AI neobank product vertical end to end, including strategy, metrics, roadmap, technical design, delivery, and launch. The role involves shaping reliable financial systems across APIs, data flows, ledgering, reconciliation, security, scalability, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities include applying AI with safeguards and evaluation, managing financial rails and third-party dependencies, and aligning engineering, design, compliance, operations, treasury, and finance. Candidates need strong technical product management experience in regulated financial or other high-consequence domains.

Develops offensive-security labs, challenges, ranges, and learning content for a cyber resilience platform. Researches vulnerabilities, tools, red-team tactics, and AI-driven attacks; tests lab functionality; translates technical findings for technical and non-technical audiences; and collaborates with Product teams on platform innovation.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; prototype; review code; debug production issues; make architecture trade-offs; convert ambiguous problems into execution plans; improve engineering quality; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major products, systems, and engineering initiatives. Design scalable and reliable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; make architecture trade-offs; solve production problems; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentor engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; lead architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve engineering quality, testing, security, and observability; and mentor engineers across teams.

The Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer will lead security initiatives, set architectural patterns, conduct security reviews, and mentor engineers while ensuring security in cloud infrastructures for GitLab.

Provide technical presales support by designing and configuring HPE/Aruba/Juniper solutions, creating bills of materials, responding to technical enquiries, maintaining documentation and vendor accreditations, enabling partners, and supporting post-sales activities to drive solution adoption and customer satisfaction.

Design and deliver complex networking and security solutions for partners and customers. Lead technical engagements from discovery through delivery, run workshops and site visits, coordinate vendors and internal teams, support commercial proposals, provide technical leadership and enablement, and maintain vendor certifications and best-practice architecture standards.

Leads technical and strategic security engineering for new-build and fit-out projects across all RIBA stages. 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, bomb blast, and ballistics. The role also requires business development, security consultancy expertise, relevant qualifications, and professional security credentials.

Own the full sales cycle for mid-market accounts, driving adoption and expansion of Elastic’s search, AI, observability, and security solutions. Build territory plans, identify use cases, conduct discovery, manage complex sales cycles, negotiate contracts, and close deals. Partner with Solutions Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and RevOps while forecasting accurately and positioning technical capabilities against measurable business outcomes.

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 grow a distributed engineering organization building customer-facing security capabilities: proprietary scanners, AI/ML detection engines, agentic remediation, vulnerability management, and security foundations. Set vision and roadmap, drive architecture and delivery, partner with product management, establish engineering standards, and represent the group in cross-functional and customer forums.

Own and grow Datadog’s strategic cloud security channel partnerships across EMEA. Responsibilities include recruiting and onboarding partners, driving partner-sourced revenue, developing joint solutions and services, enabling partners through training and joint selling, coordinating partnership launches, managing agreements, and conducting business reviews. The role requires quota-carrying cybersecurity or cloud security SaaS experience, technical communication skills, knowledge of cloud hyperscalers, and 30–40% regional travel.