IT Security Engineer

The role

You will build the platform that provisions, supports and secures every employee. This includes owning onboarding, access, devices and offboarding through automated tooling and coding agent workflows.

What you will do

• Build a joiner pipeline using Humaans, Okta, and Jamf
• Build a Slack assistant backed by a coding agent to handle requests
• Build a hardware vending machine for the Edinburgh office
• Write scripts and infrastructure as code to configure devices and enforce security baselines
• Build an offboarding flow to revoke access and reclaim devices
• Ship internal tooling and coding agent workflows to remove manual steps

Required qualifications

• Write real code and automate with APIs and scripts (Python, Bash or TypeScript)
• Think in systems: identity, access, data flows and lifecycle
• Comfortable using AI coding agents to build and ship tooling fast
• Care about security and doing things properly
• Happy working on-site in Edinburgh and hands-on with real hardware

Nice to have

• Exposure to identity and device tooling such as Okta, Google Workspace or Jamf
• Experience with SOC 2 or security compliance
• Having run or automated onboarding, endpoints or internal tools before

Benefits

• Real ownership over the platform that runs every Wordsmith employee
• Freedom to build over buy
• Will teach the IT and security domain

About the company

Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams. The company is backed by Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe and others.