Senior Cyber Security Engineer; CyberArk & PAM

Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Cyber Ark & PAM)

Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Posted on 16/07/2026

Sys Group ishiring a Senior Cyber Security Engineer specialising in privileged accessmanagement, with Cyber Ark 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 estateacross our managed clients, with PAM as your deepest expertise.

Beyond Cyber Ark , 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 reportto the Cyber Operations Lead and work closely with the SOC engineers, thePre-sales Security Consultant and the Platform & Infrastructure teams.

• Own Cyber Ark design, deployment and operation across managed clients: vaulting, session management, secretsmanagement and privileged threat analytics.
• Design PAM onboarding programmes for new clients: discovery, scoping, policy design and rollout.
• Integrate PAM with the wideridentity stack:
  Entra , conditional access, MFA and just-in-time accesspatterns.
• Set privileged access standards and evidence them for client audits (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus).

• 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: versioncurrency, coverage gaps, tuning quality and integration reliability.
• Automate deployment and operational tasks with scripts and APIs; contribute to the shared automation library.
• Act as senior escalation foridentity and tooling incidents; support major incident response.
• Document designs, runbooks and standards to a level the wider team can operate from.
• Contribute tooling and PAMexpertise to service reviews and solution scoping when needed.
• Adopt AI-assisted workflows for diagnostics, configuration review and documentation.

• 5+ years in security engineering with 2+ years of hands‑on Cyber Ark 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 (Power Shell or Python) applied to security tooling automation and integration.
• MSP/MSSP or multi‑client environment experience preferred; client audit exposure an advantage.

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

Joining Sysgroup means becoming part of adynamic 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:

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

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.