About us:

Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.

Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.

Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…

The Cyber Operations Engineer is responsible for the continuous improvement, governance, and operational effectiveness of the cybersecurity tooling, configurations, and control implementations, focused on strengthening cyber defences by ensuring the cyber tools are configured and performing optimally.

This is a hybrid role, so the successful candidate will be expected to attend the office in Dublin at least once a week.

Required Experience:

• 8+ years cybersecurity and/or IT industry experience, with at least 4 years hands-on experience in relevant roles (security operations, security engineering, infrastructure or cloud engineering)
• Demonstrable experience configuring, operating, and improving enterprise‑scale security controls
• Experience working in close partnership with SOC and IT operations teams
• Practical experience with cyber platforms such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview, Palo Alto
• Relevant Cyber qualifications e.g. CISSP, GCIH, Cloud Security certs, Security+, or similar relevant qualifications
• This role is not entry‑level and assumes prior hands‑on experience configuring and tuning IT and/or security tooling across multiple cyber domains (network, cloud, endpoint, email, identity).
• Strong understanding of modern enterprise security controls and how they fail in practice
• Comfortable working with configuration management, change control, and operational governance processes.

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Maintain and continuously improve the configuration and effectiveness of cyber security tools and platforms across:
  • Email security controls
  • Endpoint and device security (EDR/MDR, hardening)
  • Data, Identity and Access Security Controls
  • Cloud security controls and native security services
  • Network security & Application security tooling (where applicable)
• Collaborating with Threat Intelligence & Hunting team, Vulnerability team and Cyber Engineering & Architecture to:
  • Identify current tooling and/or control gaps and weaknesses
  • Recommend and implement configuration or policy improvements
  • Design and implement preventive and detective control improvements based on incident learnings. 
• Partner with the SOC to:
  • Improve detection coverage and fidelity
  • Reduce false positives and alert fatigue
  • Ensure controls align with real‑world attack techniques
• Support governance and oversight of security tooling by:
  • Ensuring configurations align with approved standards and policies
  • Maintaining documentation of control intent and configuration rationale
• Support Cyber Engineering & Architecture with insights and contributions on cyber tooling selection, control design decisions and effectiveness of cyber platforms.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of security configuration standards, baseline cyber standards and operational runbooks
• Assist in the roll-out of new cyber tooling, to transition into operational and support management, with supporting third parties.
• Support audits and assessments by providing evidence of control configurations and operational procedures

Desirable skills:

• Working knowledge of at least one scripting or programming language (e.g. Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern attacker techniques.
• Experience working with outsourced providers 

What’s in it for you: 

• An opportunity to join a fast-growing company  
• Options for career advancement 
• Learning and development opportunities 
• Flexible working environment
• Competitive salaries based on experience 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace. 

Your personal data

Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
• Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
• Accurate and kept up to date
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
• Kept securely

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