Security Engineer

The role

You will be the first dedicated security engineer at GetGround. You will own the security posture by deciding how to prevent, detect, and respond to threats across cloud, devices, identity, and SaaS estate.

What you will do

• Own the security posture and define a security roadmap
• Keep leadership informed about risks and needs
• Track emerging threats including AI-driven attacks
• Run the SIEM and own alerts
• Write detection rules and map coverage against MITRE ATT&CK
• Build automated response playbooks
• Lead incident response
• Protect sensitive data across devices, email, and cloud storage
• Partner with site reliability, product engineers, and compliance teams
• Build and update security policies and the ISMS

Required qualifications

• Hands-on detection and response experience
• Experience running a SIEM, building detection rules, and owning alerting in production
• Cloud security depth in cloud infrastructure, identity, and networking
• Endpoint and identity experience running EDR, anti-malware, and identity tooling
• Automation-first mindset
• Ability to prioritize risk and explain trade-offs to non-specialists
• Ownership and clear communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, financial services or another FCA-regulated environment
• Experience implementing controls for security certifications such as ISO 27001
• Experience with SOAR tooling and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform
• Experience securing AI systems or LLM-based products
• Experience as the first or only security hire at a startup or scale-up
• Experience with UK GDPR or working alongside a Data Protection Officer
• Experience with identity and zero-trust controls, such as SSO, phishing-resistant MFA and conditional access
• Experience running penetration tests, red-team exercises or a bug bounty programme

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity
• Private health and dental cover
• Learning budget
• Home-office setup budget
• 12 mental health days per year

About the company

GetGround is an all-in-one property investment platform. It supports investors through opportunity analysis, company formation, financing, accounting, and portfolio management.