Cyber Security Engineer

Help protect the people, projects and information behind some of the world's most complex engineering and construction programmes.

We're looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to help translate our security roadmap into practical, well-engineered solutions. This is a hands‑on opportunity to apply your technical expertise, influence security by design and strengthen a modern, resilient technology environment.

Laing O'Rourke's IT function has renewed its strategy to support the company's ambition to transform the construction industry, making it more sustainable, more productive, and fit for the future.

Technology has a critical role to play in achieving this ambition. Our focus is on applying digital capability in ways that genuinely matter, shaping how complex projects are delivered, how decisions are made, and how innovation improves outcomes for people, communities, and the environment.

Our mission is clear: to create a modern and resilient technology environment where trusted data informs every decision, AI enhances every process, and digital capability enables the organisation to operate with greater scale and productivity.

To deliver this, we are building a different kind of IT function, one that is trusted by the business, forward looking in its thinking, and deeply connected to operational outcomes. We are looking for individuals who are curious, thoughtful, and motivated by contributing to work that has real industry impact.

Based in Dartford and working as part of a global Cyber Security team, you will design, implement and continually improve the controls that protect our technology environment.

You will collaborate with colleagues across IT, projects and the wider business to understand their needs and introduce proportionate controls that meet business, compliance and security requirements. Working closely with cyber security architecture and operations specialists, you will help ensure security is considered from the outset of projects rather than added later.

• Design, implement and maintain cyber security solutions that reduce business risk and support compliance with security policies and standards.
• Work with business units, project teams and risk specialists to identify security requirements through risk and business impact assessments.
• Help shape and deliver the cyber security roadmap, including controls supporting relevant industry frameworks and certifications.
• Embed secure-by-design principles across IT and business projects, providing practical guidance, standards, templates and security baselines.
• Assess emerging threats, vulnerabilities and control techniques, recommending proportionate remedial action.
• Support the response to critical cyber security incidents in collaboration with Cyber Operations.
• Maintain and improve cyber security policies, standards and processes.
• Evaluate technologies, suppliers and security services, using your findings to provide clear recommendations to security leadership.

• Relevant cyber security engineering qualifications or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience of enterprise infrastructure, including Windows and Microsoft Azure cloud or hybrid environments.
• Hands‑on experience with the Microsoft E5 security toolset.
• Experience implementing and supporting a range of security technologies, including SIEM, EDR, firewalls, vulnerability management, identity and access management, encryption and related security controls.
• Working knowledge of recognised security frameworks such as Essential Eight, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials.
• Understanding of information risk principles and the ability to translate business and…