Group Cybersecurity Engineer (Expert Seniority Level)

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and Mauritius. Our goal? We bring people solutions to life and turn HR into a value source for our clients and their people.

Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from salary payment to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent. Are you ready to join us?

About the role:

The Group Cybersecurity Engineer (expert seniority level) role at SD Worx is a senior, hands-on cybersecurity position focused on protecting the company's global IT environment while enabling business growth. The role combines security engineering, vulnerability management, incident response, strategic advisory, process improvement, and stakeholder influence.

Which tasks can you expect?

Security Engineering & Operational Excellence

• Conduct security reviews, threat assessments, and risk analyses.

• Improve security controls across cloud, infrastructure, and workplace technologies.

• Enhance monitoring, detection, and response capabilities (SIEM, XDR, IDS/IPS, IAM, hardening).

• Lead vulnerability management, prioritizing risks based on business impact, exploitability, and threat intelligence rather than CVSS scores alone.

• Support major incident investigations and forensic activities.

• Participate in on-call escalation support.

Process Improvement & Governance

• Redesign and optimize security processes across teams and countries.

• Ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks (ISO, CIS, SD Worx policies).

• Define SOPs, SOC playbooks, and scalable security engineering practices.

• Promote secure-by-design principles across IT and application teams.

• Automate security operations using AI.

Innovation & Strategic Advisory

• Monitor emerging threats, technologies, AI capabilities, and regulations.

• Translate external developments into practical security improvements.

• Advise strategic business and IT initiatives.

• Introduce AI-assisted security capabilities to improve threat analysis, vulnerability prioritization, and incident response while keeping human oversight.

Influence & Leadership

• Build relationships with senior stakeholders and international teams.

• Act as a trusted advisor on complex security topics.

• Represent Security in cross-country forums and external events.

• Drive knowledge sharing and security maturity throughout the organization.

What do you have to offer?

Essential

• Proven 7 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering and operations, with deep hands‑on expertise in security tooling and platforms (SIEM, detection/response, IAM, hardening).

• Strong understanding of infrastructure, cloud and workplace security architectures and security operations concepts.

• Ability to translate technical risk into business‑relevant insights for diverse stakeholders.

• Solid knowledge of network protocols, identity technologies and Active Directory.

• Professional English proficiency (additional European languages are an asset).

• Demonstrated experience with vulnerability management programmes, including risk‑based prioritisation, remediation governance and stakeholder alignment.

Desirable

• Recognized security certifications or clear ambition to obtain them.

• Scripting and automation skills to improve security efficiency and scalability.

• Demonstrated drive to shape secure engineering practices and influence beyond own technical scope.

• Comfortable operating autonomously and communicating with confidence at senior level.

• Experience or strong interest in applying AI or machine‑learning techniques to security operations, detection engineering, vulnerability analysis or automation.

What do we have to offer?

• Leaves: the types of leave granted from day 1 (annual leave, study leave, maternity/paternity leave, wedding leave, compassionate leave). Eligible for seniority leave after 3 years

• Insurance benefits: Medical insurance fully paid by SD Worx for you and two dependents (children up to 18 years old). Option to upgrade available. You are also eligible to enroll your parents in your medical insurance at a subsidized rate

• Monthly fixed transport allowance

• No deduction for using the company’s transport after work

• Eligible for a mobile voucher, redeemable at one of four suppliers, renewable every 3 years

• Fixed internet allowance for home use

• Career break option

• Workation: possibility to work from any SD Worx location (4 weeks per year, EU only)

• Yearly performance review with remuneration review

• Yearly company bonus

• Car loan: subsidized interest facility

• Referral program

• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training

• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or want to expand your knowledge more horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx!

Please be informed that upon successful completion of the interview process, you will be required to submit a recent Certificate of Character, and you will undergo a background check as part of our standard legal procedures.

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

SD Worx embraces diversity in the workplace. Diversity brings inspiration and innovation to our company. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin color, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or stage of life.