Cyber Security Engineer Apprentice
London South East college
Bromley (BR2 8HE)
Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 August 2025
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Summary
This role sits within the Cyber Security function led by the Group Head of Cyber Security. The apprentice will be the first dedicated cyber security post within the organisation, supporting both the College and wider Group (including the Trust and its schools)
- Wage
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£18,170 a year
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Salary increase in second year of apprenticeship, with over 19s paid at national living wage
- Training course
- Cyber security technologist (2021) (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday 08:30-5:00pm
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 26 September 2025
- Duration
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2 years 4 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
· Assist with reviewing and investigating security alerts and user/device activity via Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Cloud Apps.
· Monitor and contribute to the improvement of data retention, classification and labelling through Microsoft Purview.
· Help document security incidents, lessons learned, and recovery actions.
· Participate in access reviews, identity lifecycle audits, and conditional access enforcement.
· Shadow patching, vulnerability management and secure configuration reviews across endpoints and services.
· Draft and update procedural documentation, such as acceptable use guidance, email security, and phishing response runbooks.
· Engage in security awareness efforts, including user training materials and simulated phishing tests.
· Rotate through departments to gain foundational knowledge of infrastructure, networking, and service operations.
· Follow and help enforce Group policies on data protection, safeguarding, and acceptable use.
· Undertake learning and development as part of the Level 4 Cyber Security Technician apprenticeship programme.
· Log and reflect on learning outcomes as part of the required 20% off-the-job training activity
Where you'll work
Rookery Lane
Bromley
BR2 8HE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Training course
Cyber security technologist (2021) (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Discover vulnerabilities in a system by using a mix of research and practical exploration
- Analyse and evaluate security threats and hazards to a system or service or processes. Use relevant external source of threat intelligence or advice (e.g. National Cyber Security Centre) Combine different sources to create an enriched view of cyber threats and hazards
- Research and investigate common attack techniques and relate these to normal and observed digital system behaviour and recommend how to defend against them. Interpret and demonstrate use of external source of vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP, intelligence sharing initiatives, open source)
- Undertake security risk assessments for simple systems without direct supervision and propose basic remediation advice in the context of the employer.
- Source and analyse security cases and describe what threats, vulnerability or risks are mitigated and identify any residual areas of concern.
- Analyse employer or customer requirements to derive security objectives and taking account of the threats and overall context develop a security case which sets out the proposed security measures in the context with reasoned justification
- Identify and follow organisational policies and standards for information and cyber security and operate according to service level agreements or other defined performance targets.
- Configure, deploy and use computer, digital network and cyber security technology.
- Recommend improvements to the cyber security posture of an employer or customer based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
- Write program code or scripts to meet a given design requirement in accordance with employers' coding standards
- Identify cyber security threats relevant to a defined context
- Accurately, objectively and concisely record and report the appropriate cyber security information, including in written reports within a structure or template provided.
- Design, build, test and troubleshoot a network incorporating more than one subnet with static and dynamic routes, to a given design requirement without supervision. Provide evidence that the system meets the design requirement.
- Analyse security requirements given (functional and non-functional security requirements that may be presented in a security case) against other design requirements (e.g. usability, cost, size, weight, power, heat, supportability etc.) for a given system or product. Identify conflicting requirements and propose, with reasoning, resolution through appropriate trade-offs.
- Design and build, systems in accordance with a security case within broad but generally well-defined parameters. This should include selection and configuration of typical security hardware and software components. Provide evidence that the system has properly implemented the security controls required by the security case
- Design systems employing encryption to meet defined security objectives. Develop and implement a plan for managing the associated encryption keys for the given scenario or system.
- Use tools, techniques and processes to actively prevent breaches to digital system security.
- Configure digital system monitoring and analysis tools (e.g. SIEM tools), taking account of threat & vulnerability intelligence, indicators of compromise.
- Conduct cyber-risk assessments against an externally (market) recognised cyber security standard using a recognised risk assessment methodology.
- Develop information security policies or processes to address a set of identified risks, for example from security audit recommendations.
- Develop information security policies within a defined scope to take account of legislation and regulation relevant to cyber security.
- Take an active part in a security audits against recognised cyber security standards, undertake gap analysis and make recommendations for remediation..
- Develop plans for local business continuity for approval within defined governance arrangements for business continuity.
- Assess security culture using a recognised approach.
- Design and implement a simple ‘security awareness’ campaign to address a specific aspect of a security culture.
- Develop plans for incident response for approval within defined governance arrangements for incident response.
- Integrate and correlate information from various sources (including log files from different sources, digital system monitoring tools, Secure Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, access control systems, physical security systems) and compare to known threat and vulnerability data to form a judgement based on evidence with reasoning that the anomaly represents a digital system security breach
- Recognise anomalies in observed digital system data structures (including by inspection of network packet data structures) and digital system behaviours (including by inspection of protocol behaviours) and by inspection of log files and by investigation of alerts raised by automated tools including SIEM tools.
- Undertake root cause analysis of events and make recommendations to reduce false positives and false negatives.
- Manage local response to non-major incidents in accordance with a defined procedure.
- Discover vulnerabilities in a system by using a mix of research and practical exploration
- Analyse and evaluate security threats and hazards to a system or service or processes. Use relevant external source of threat intelligence or advice (e.g. National Cyber Security Centre) Combine different sources to create an enriched view of cyber threats and hazards
- Research and investigate common attack techniques and relate these to normal and observed digital system behaviour and recommend how to defend against them. Interpret and demonstrate use of external source of vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP, intelligence sharing initiatives, open source)
- Undertake security risk assessments for simple systems without direct supervision and propose basic remediation advice in the context of the employer.
- Source and analyse security cases and describe what threats, vulnerability or risks are mitigated and identify any residual areas of concern.
- Analyse employer or customer requirements to derive security objectives and taking account of the threats and overall context develop a security case which sets out the proposed security measures in the context with reasoned justification
- Identify and follow organisational policies and standards for information and cyber security and operate according to service level agreements or other defined performance targets.
- Configure, deploy and use computer, digital network and cyber security technology.
- Recommend improvements to the cyber security posture of an employer or customer based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
- Write program code or scripts to meet a given design requirement in accordance with employers' coding standards
- Identify cyber security threats relevant to a defined context
- Accurately, objectively and concisely record and report the appropriate cyber security information, including in written reports within a structure or template provided.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9-4)
- Maths (grade 9-4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Awareness of basic IT
- Cyber security concepts
Other requirements
Experience working independently on a project or hobby relating to cyber security
About this employer
London South East College are a vibrant and diverse college delivering courses and apprenticeships across South East London
After this apprenticeship
Progression to cyber security engineer or cyber risk analyst
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NEWHAM COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336736.
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Closes in 12 days (Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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