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Cyber Security Recruitment Agency - Current Vacancies

CND are the UK's oldest independent cyber security recruitment agency, specialising in global security recruitment since 2004. Our ethical, personable, and dedicated approach to business has resulted in a reputation for excellence. This combined with our in-house technical, consultancy, and recruitment expertise ensures an unrivalled understanding of candidate and client requirements. Armed with our strong belief in 'quality over quantity,' our candidates and clients are all screened, tested, and referenced to ensure a competitive ratio of 'candidate submissions to offers'.


Please scroll down to find your perfect cyber security role. These are a selection of our current vacancies, we always have more roles which we cannot advertise for a variety of reasons, so please consider registering your CV with us. We offer both contract and permanent roles. 

If you are a client seeking to fill a cyber security role on your team, please contact us.

Permanent Roles with Computer Network Defence Ltd

Security Operations Centre Analyst

Type: Permanent
Location: Isle of Man
Clearance: Ability to hold SC

CND are growing our Isle of Man Security Operations Centre Team, where we offer protective security monitoring services to a number of clients from financial institutions, to leading tech firms and even some clients in the Superyacht world.  The best bit?  You don’t need to be currently working in Cyber, if you have a background in System Admin or IT engineering, we can train you to put those skills to good use defending customer networks from malicious actors.

Senior Penetration Tester

Type: Permanent
Location: Corsham/Remote
Clearance: Ability to hold SC

Would you like to be a leader within the next phase of an established business? How about taking on the challenge of building a capability around your offensive security skills? As we move into 2023, we are now looking to expand the Red Team at CND to encompass someone wholly devoted to testing and securing our client’s network and applications. This is a greenfield role, where you will be supported but ultimately, we will be looking to you to drive the thirst for excellence across a burgeoning team.

Cyber Security Analyst

Type: Permanent
Location: Corsham/Onsite as required
Clearance: SC/DV

CND are looking to bolster our internal team with another experienced Security Analyst. Your role will be to develop and provide monitoring services to both our customers and our internal networks. You will be working with some of the sharpest minds in cyber, who have an enviable knowledge of the vast Cyber Security realm. At times, you may be working on site with our clients delivering protective monitoring or SOC capability development across our diverse range of customers.

Contract Roles Through Computer Network Defence Ltd

SOC Analysts

Type: Contract
Location: Warrington & Remote
Clearance: Beneficial

CND are being engaged to develop a new cloud monitoring function for a government client.  Currently, their SOC provision covers elements of IT and OT however with a growing Cloud appetite they are looking to add a further provision of cloud native SOC monitoring to protect their sensitive information hosted in Microsoft Azure.  As such, they are looking for experienced SOC analysts to come on board and build upon their brownfield environment to deliver a best-in-class SOC function. 

Security Assurance Coordinator

Type: Contract
Location: Andover/Remote
Clearance: SC Minimum

CND are looking to add to an existing team we’ve built for a leading public sector consultancy, delivering assurance services into government clients. We are looking for a SAC or Information Assurance Consultant with experience in delivering assurance outcomes into a diverse range of projects, aligned to both HMG standards and NIST. The role is an opportunity to be exposed to a premium quality of work. The position is outside IR35 and has an attractive duration.

Permanent Roles With Our Clients

OT Security Manager

Type: Permanent
Location: Scotland/Hybrid
Clearance: SC

This is a great opportunity to develop your OT career further, learning from talented colleagues whilst also carving your own solutions out.

OT Security Analyst

Type: Permanent
Location: Scotland/Hybrid
Clearance: SC

Are you experienced in working with OT Systems?  Confident in developing protections for systems that interact with everyday lives? We are working with a leading utilities business to help develop their OT Security Engineering team, delivering key services to important and critical environments.  The role will allow you fascinating oversight, including the governance requirements within the OT space as well as working to implement key technical protections across diverse networks and systems.  A wide ranging role, you will be interfacing with other departments of the organisation to effectively protect the areas under your care. 

SOC Analyst

Type: Permanent
Location: Hereford (On-site)

Do you have experience as a SOC analyst?  Are you keen to work on interesting projects and clients using cutting edge tooling? CND are working with a great consultancy delivering innovative technical solutions to public sector who are looking at developing their SOC.  It’s is a young division of the company, aiming at delivering added value to their existing client base through defensive Cyber monitoring. As it stands, they are looking for someone with 6-12 months experience in a SOC, ideally working on Splunk to effectively protect clients and respond to actionable alerts.