Cyber Security Analyst L4

I.T. & Communications
Midlothian
May 23, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Overview

Title: CYBER SECURITY ANALYST L4

Location: UK (Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds)

Responsibilities

  • Seek an Infrastructure engineer with exposure to F5 Networking services.
  • The Study Engineer sits at the front end of delivery. Their job is to take a customer or programme requirement and turn it into a clear, build ready technical solution for the Delivery and Service teams.
  • The Study Engineer is responsible for the technical discovery and design that happens before build and implementation.
  • Understand application, traffic, security, and resilience requirements.
  • Determine whether an existing F5 pattern can be used or whether a bespoke design is required.
  • Produce design and handover artefacts: A key output of the Study Engineer is documentation that enables delivery without ambiguity.
  • – Approved F5 pattern selection or design alignment.
  • – Identification of risks, assumptions, and dependencies before build.
  • This ensures Delivery engineers can execute without rework or clarification loops:
  • Bridges architecture, security, and delivery.
  • Study Engineers act as a technical translator across teams.
  • Align solutions with security and governance expectations.
  • Ensure designs are compatible with the current F5 estate and tooling.
  • Validate that what’s being requested is achievable within platform standards.
  • Needs strong F5 & networking expertise:
  • Although they may not always build configurations themselves, Study Engineers need deep technical understanding to design effectively.
  • SSL/TLS, traffic management, persistence, health monitoring.
  • Automation and tooling awareness (e.g. AppViewX, AS3/DO).

Skills & Experience

  • Expertise: F5 Big-IP (LTM, GTM/DNS, APM, AWAF), Jenkins, GitHub
  • Proficiency: DO, AS3, Python and enterprise integrations
  • Strong understanding: Network technologies, IP Routing protocols, and Firewalls
  • Experience: Cloud based architectures, CaaS, IaaS
  • Knowledge: Traditional datacentre hosted architectures
  • Understanding: Operational Resilience and Security
  • Agile methodologies: Jira and CI/CD pipelines

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