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Cyber Security Engineer - Deception & Honeypot Specialist Location: UK (fully remote - work from anywhere, including overseas)Salary: Up to £85,000 + benefits About the role We're looking for a Cyber Security Engineer with deep expertise in deception technologies and honeypots to help us build and operate highly realistic, internet-facing security environments. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on active defence, attacker engagement, and turning adversary behaviour into high-quality detection signals and threat intelligence. You'll work at scale, move quickly, and operate where real attackers live. What you'll be doing Design, deploy and run large-scale deception infrastructure, including high-interaction honeypots and decoy services exposed to the internet Build believable emulations of real systems, applications and protocols that withstand fingerprinting and attacker scrutiny Capture, enrich and analyse real attacker behaviour, from initial access through exploitation and post-exploitation Continuously adapt deception techniques based on emerging vulnerabilities, exploitation trends and adversary tradecraft Transform raw telemetry and logs into actionable security signals, detections and structured intelligence Rapidly roll out new deception scenarios in response to active exploitation, N-day and zero-day events Work closely with Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence to productionise insights Produce automated analysis and reporting on attacker activity, campaigns and techniques Share findings across engineering, research, product and go-to-market teams Contribute to