Checkout.Com

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

London. Posted 2 months ago

The role

You will be a hands-on operator in the Cyber Security team. You will run, harden, and improve security machinery by enhancing platforms, tightening procedures, and managing findings and alerts.

What you will do

  • Supporting and enhancing security tooling SIEM, EDR, DLP, vulnerability management, and automation platforms
  • Building and improving operational procedures, runbooks, and playbooks
  • Triaging and handling security alerts and contributing to incident response
  • Tracking, coordinating, and driving pentest and vulnerability findings through to remediation
  • Maintaining the accuracy and hygiene of security data asset inventories and remediation records
  • Supporting detection deployment and validation
  • Assisting with scripting and automation to remove manual toil
  • Producing clear operational reporting and metrics

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in a Security Operations, SOC, or equivalent operational security role
  • Practical experience operating modern security tooling SIEM (e.g. Sentinel), Data Loss Prevention (DLP) tools, EDR, and vulnerability management platforms
  • Solid understanding of security operations workflows: alert triage, incident handling, and vulnerability/finding remediation lifecycles
  • Comfort with scripting to support automation (e.g. Python, KQL)
  • Experience coordinating remediation across multiple engineering or platform teams
  • Working knowledge of cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure and GCP)
  • Familiarity with common frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS, NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks, and MITRE ATT&CK

About the company

Checkout.com enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. The company has 20 offices across six continents with London as HQ.