Cyber Security Specialist

Location: Hybrid - 3 days at VHQ Crawley

Hours:Full Time 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday

Contract Type:Permanent

Salary:Competitive

Closing Date: 24^th July 2026

We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

At Virgin Atlantic Airways we believe that everyone can take on the world and its our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey were harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.

In a nutshell

Our Cyber Security team plays a critical role in protecting our customers peopleoperationsand technology environment helping us deliver saferesilientand secure experiences across the airline.

Werelooking for a technically capable and proactiveCyber Operations Specialistto join our Information & Cyber Security team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in cyber operations security monitoring incidentresponseor SIEM engineering who wants to help strengthen operational cyber resilience in a complex fast-moving enterprise environment.

Day to day

As part of our Cyber Operations capability youll help protect Virgin Atlantic by strengthening how we monitor detect and respond to cyber threats across our technology estate.

Youll work closely with internal technology teams managed security providers and specialist partners to improve detection coverage telemetry quality response readiness and operational security tooling. Its a great opportunity for someone who enjoys practical problem-solving thoughtful collaboration and making security operations better every day.

• Support cyber incident triage investigation containment evidence gathering escalation and lessons-learned activity.
• Develop and tune detection rules SIEM use cases and alerting logic using threat analysis incident learning and known attacker techniques.
• Support SIEM engineering log-source onboarding parser validation and improvements to telemetry quality.
• Maintain and improve security tooling integrations and automation workflows including opportunities to streamline operational activity.
• Support red team purple team and threat-led testing from a logging detection response and evidence-capture perspective.
• Work with infrastructure cloud endpoint identity network application and platform teams to improve security visibility response capability and operational resilience.

About you

Youll be someone who brings cyber operations experience technical curiosity and a collaborative mindset with a real interest in improving monitoring detection and response outcomes.

• You have experience in cyber security operations SOC MDR security monitoring incident response or a similar operational security environment.
• Youre comfortable working with SIEM platforms detection engineering alert tuning log-source onboarding telemetry analysis or data-quality improvement.
• You understand threat analysis defensive monitoring concepts intrusion methods and common attacker techniques and can turn insight into practical action.
• Youve worked with security tooling workflow optimisation integrations automation or SOAR processes and enjoy finding better ways of working.
• You can communicate technical security issues clearly to different audiences and influence through evidence expertise and thoughtful challenge.
• You bring a good understanding of cyber security frameworks such as NIST CSF ISO/IEC 27001 MITRE ATT&CK or PCI DSS. A relevant certification would be helpful but equivalent practical experience is just as valued.

About You

Youll be someone who brings cyber operations experience technical curiosity and a collaborative mindset with a real interest in improving monitoring detection and response outcomes.

• You have experience in cyber security operations SOC MDR security monitoring incident response or a similar operational security environment.
• Youre comfortable working with SIEM platforms detection engineering alert tuning log-source onboarding telemetry analysis or data-quality improvement.
• You understand threat analysis defensive monitoring concepts intrusion methods and common attacker techniques and can turn insight into practical action.
• Youve worked with security tooling workflow optimisation integrations automation or SOAR processes and enjoy finding better ways of working.
• You can communicate technical security issues clearly to different audiences and influence through evidence expertise and thoughtful challenge.
• You bring a good understanding of cyber security frameworks such as NIST CSF ISO/IEC 27001 MITRE ATT&CK or PCI DSS. A relevant certification would be helpful but equivalent practical experience is just as valued.

If this sounds like you and you would like to unlock your potential with us we would love to hear from you!

Be yourself Our differences make us stronger

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. Thats why were proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age gender gender identity gender expression ethnicity sexual orientation disabilities religion or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you we encourage you to let us know if youd like a little extra help with your application or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you so please reach out to our team()feeling confident that weve got your individual considerations covered.

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