Cyber Security Engineer, Abrdn
Savings & investment company
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Savings & investment company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Helping clients to prepare for the future
Role
Who you are
- Understanding of microservices architecture, Azure Logic Apps and DevSecOps
- Contribute to security architecture reviews and risk assessments
- Experience with ITSM tools such as Jira or ServiceNow for workflow, incident and change management
- Implement CI/CD practices for security content deployment and configuration management
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages with experience in developing automation playbooks, scripts that interact with APIs and parsers for data engines
- Industry recognised certifications such as SC-200, SC-100, AZ-500, Certified Splunk Admin/Architect, PCSAE, CISSP, CEH or equivalent
- Experience of working with globally dispersed teams
What the job involves
- Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent
- Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society
- We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent
- Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
- Interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them
- Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers
- Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes
- At Aberdeen the Security, Resilience and Protection departments the security of our customer assets and data is of paramount importance, especially within our changing digital world. Within our department, an exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious Security Engineer
- This role represents a unique opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the cyber security engineering team and engage with teams across the enterprise to develop a best-in-class engineering function using emerging technologies and innovative working practices
- Advancing a team culture that promotes learning, creativity and supportive collaboration provides an environment where new approaches, innovative thinking and commitment will allow you to deliver high quality outputs
- Reporting to the Cyber Security Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining our next-generation detection and log management platforms
- This role sits at the intersection of SIEM engineering, cloud security, and advanced log pipeline management, ensuring that our enterprise maintains world-class detection fidelity, threat visibility and compliance across diverse environments
- You will help us deliver improvements across several of our cyber security domains including Security Data & Analytics, Security Automation, Incident Response and Threat Detection
- Additionally, you will work closely with our Cyber Security Operation Centre, wider security functions, specialist 3rd party security suppliers and our global IT and business teams
- SIEM engineering & Operations:
- Development of advanced detection rules, correlation searches, and playbooks to improve threat detection and response
- Perform log source onboarding, parsing, and data normalisation on various data types
- Experience with design, development, configuration and maintenance of SIEM alerts to support our SOC Operations
- Log Management & Data Engineering:
- Engineer and maintain log pipelines using Cribl to optimise ingestion, filtering, routing and replay
- Ability to work confidently on intelligent log transformation, data enrichment and routing strategies
- Architect scalable solutions for log archival, data rehydration and compliance-driven retention
- Cloud Security:
- Leverage Azure-native security services such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor and Azure AD
- Implement security monitoring, alerting and automation across Azure logging and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS workloads
- Integrate Azure EventHubs, Log Analytics and a strong knowledge of Kusto Query Language (KQL) as well as Splunk Processing Language (SPL) to optimise data pipelines and detection engineering
Application process
- End Date: November 24, 2025
Our take
Abrdn, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. It also includes SIPP drawdown capabilities - which means advisers can choose the best platform charges when client assets are at their highest. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
In 2023, Abrdn announced "adviserOS", which represents an upgrade to their platform offerings. There is limited information to go on, but the company claims this new venture will be simpler and data-led, as well as require less admin. It will be interesting to see if this new release keeps pace with tech developments across the investment space and allows abrdn to continue as an innovator.
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Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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