Cyber Security Specialist

The following content displays a map of the jobs location - Cavendish 249, Ashton-under-Lyne

Apply for this job Manage my job alerts Cyber Security Specialist

Job Reference jigsawhomes/TP/898/517

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £42,085 - £46,451 per annum. Working Hours: 35 hours per week. Location: Cavendish 249, Ashton-under-Lyne Closing Date: 06/12/2026 Job Category: IT Region / Division: Leigh and/or Ashton Under-Lyne Business Unit: IT

Job Introduction

Who we are:

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 37,500 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the department:

All of Jigsaw's essential services rely on quality information, systems and technology supported by the 50 members of the IT department. Working to a brand-new IT Strategy, the team has exciting challenges like enabling colleagues to work effectively from anywhere, automating processes and improving digital services for our customers, whilst always improving security.

The team is also innovating in its ways of working, ensuring transparency, a keen focus on outcomes and faster delivery of benefits to the business.

About the role:

The Cyber Security Specialist plays a key role in delivering Jigsaw's Secure by Design strategy, ensuring security is embedded into technology decisions, projects and operational services from the outset whilst delivering the remediation and implementation activities required to continually improve the organisation's cyber security posture.

Working alongside Cyber Security Analysts, Infrastructure Teams, Business Systems Teams and third-party security providers, the role holder will deliver the remediation of security vulnerabilities, implement technical security controls and drive improvements identified through threat monitoring, governance reviews, audits, vulnerability assessments and security incidents.

A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Defender technologies, Microsoft 365 Security, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID and Azure security capabilities is essential.

This role provides an excellent opportunity for an ambitious cyber professional to develop their technical expertise whilst helping to raise the organisation's overall cyber security maturity.

For more information regarding the role, please refer to the job pack below.

Why join us?

Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a competitive 24 days holiday per annum rising incrementally to 29 days, plus statutory bank holidays and 3 concessionary days in December. We also offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year.

As a Jigsaw employee you will also receive incremental salaried pay, company sick pay, on-site gyms, access to our cash back health plan membership, access to Perkbox, our benefits platform giving you access to hundreds of retail discounts, cashback offers and rewards, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, training/development opportunities plus much more. See the benefits page on our website for more details.

If this sounds like the perfect job for you then don’t hesitate to apply now!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Your Application

Your application should reflect your own skills, experience and motivation for the role. While we recognise that AI tools may be used in limited circumstances, such as reasonable adjustments or accessibility support, applications should not be created or substantially rewritten using generative AI. Where AI has been used to materially assist your application, please declare how and where it was used. Failure to do so may be considered during the recruitment process. Routine spelling, grammar and accessibility tools do not need to be declared.

Attached documents: