Senior Cyber Security Engineer

The role

This person will mature application and cloud security across an AWS-hosted technology estate. They will improve security guardrails, run threat-modelling sessions, and build automation to reduce toil.

What you will do

• Improve application security guardrails
• Tune and evolve SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning and related controls
• Improve cloud and IaC security guardrails
• Drive vulnerability management
• Drive cloud misconfiguration management
• Run practical threat modelling
• Build automation and tooling
• Support secure architecture decisions
• Partner with engineering teams
• Support incidents and lessons learned

Required qualifications

• Strong practical experience in application security and cloud security
• Hands-on AWS security experience
• Experience improving vulnerability management across engineering teams
• Experience in improving cloud or IaC misconfiguration management at scale
• Experience integrating, tuning or improving security tooling in CI/CD workflows
• Experience running practical threat-modelling sessions
• Ability to write scripts or small tools, ideally in Python
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Evidence of improving application security, cloud security or vulnerability management practices in a real engineering environment
• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum ways of working

Nice to have

• Experience with leveraging AI for AppSec and CloudSec
• AWS Certified Security – Speciality or equivalent practical AWS security experience
• Terraform or CloudFormation expertise
• Incident-management or incident-response experience
• Experience with Splunk or similar logging/SIEM platforms
• Experience with security metrics, dashboards or reporting
• Experience mentoring or line-managing security engineers

Benefits

• Generous annual leave
• Medical cover
• Inclusive parental leave packages
• Subsidised gym memberships
• Opportunities to give back to the community

About the company

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