Security Engineer

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016, Ekco has quickly become one of Europe’s fastest-growing cloud solution providers and your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider.

IT leaders choose Ekco to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk – powered by local expertise, delivered at European scale.

We specialise in helping organisations advance their cloud maturity guiding transformation, strengthening security, and maximising the value of their technology investments.

☁️ In simple terms: we help organisations modernise with confidence securing their systems, optimising their cloud, and keeping them resilient in a rapidly changing world.

🌍 Today, we’re a thriving team of 1,000+ talented and supportive colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Africa, and Malaysia—and we’re continuing to grow.

At Ekco, how we work matters as much as what we deliver. Our people live by four core values that shape everything we do:

• On It: We take ownership, follow through, and get things done.
• All In : We collaborate, support each other, and commit fully to shared goals.
• Connected: We build trusted relationships with colleagues, clients, and partners.
• Hungry to Grow: We stay curious, keep learning, and push ourselves to the next level.

🏠If these values resonate with you, you’ll feel right at home here.

The Role

We wish to appoint a Security Engineer to our team. The candidate will be one of the leaders of a team of that delivers a range of advisory and technology services to our clients. This is a great opportunity to become involved in a dynamic and rapidly growing team delivering a leading range of professional services offering.

EKCO will support you and encourage your growth and development to identify further potential and expertise in the cybersecurity field.

Day to day your role will involve

• Design, implement and manage security controls across network, endpoint, cloud and application layers
• Administer and tune web proxy and secure web gateway solutions to control web access, prevent data exfiltration and detect malicious activity
• Manage and optimise email security and filtering platforms, including anti-phishing, anti-malware and spam detection rules
• Monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts using SIEM and other detection platforms
• Develop, maintain and enhance detection use cases, correlation rules and alerting logic to improve threat visibility and reduce false positives
• Analyse logs and telemetry from web proxy, email, endpoint and network sources to identify suspicious or malicious behaviour

To be successful in this role you’ll need/ What you’ll bring to the role or team/ What we’re looking for in a teammate

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Network Security, Information Security, Information
• Technology, or Mathematics (or equivalent work experience)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You should be able to communicate technical details clearly.
• The ability to adjust and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• A pro-active approach to addressing issues and requests and the ability to multi task
• The ability to learn new technology and concepts quickly
• Great organisational skills and attention to detail
• Experience supporting and administering Splunk
• 5 to 10 years of professional experience

Bonus points if you have

• Prior experience working with SIEM or EDR – E.g. SPLUNK, IBM QRadar, Sentinel, Rapid7, Carbon Black, ZScaler and Proofpoint
• Industry recognized certifications – E.g. CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Microsoft SC-200
• Demonstrated knowledge of TCP/IP networking and major protocols such as: HTTP, SSL/TLS, DNS, SMTP
• An understanding or proficiency in information security and compliance regulations (ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR)
• Theoretical or practical knowledge in the following areas:
• Unix, Linux, Windows, etc. operating systems
• Exploits, vulnerabilities, network attacks
• Well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, LDAP, etc.)
• Packet analysis tools (tcpdump, Wireshark, ngrep, etc.) o Regular expressions
• Database structures and queries

Why Ekco

⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the Year

🚀 First Irish Microsoft MSP to achieve all four Microsoft Security Specializations

🏅 Ranked 4th fastest-growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards

🌈 A culture rooted in diversity, equality, inclusion & belonging

🎉 A commitment to internal mobility and career progression

✨ Flexible, family-friendly working at the heart of our culture

🔐 Proud to be your trusted security-first Managed Service Provider chosen by IT leaders to drive operational efficiency, scale smarter and stay ahead of risk.