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Requirements
Must:
- Strong application and infrastructure security background in cloud-native environments
- Hands-on experience across CI/CD, containerisation, and infrastructure-as-code
- Deep understanding of common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10 and beyond)
- Practical experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning tooling
- Proven end-to-end vulnerability management and incident response experience, including supply chain risk mitigation
- Ability to assess risk and make clear prioritisation calls, even with imperfect information
- Track record of leading cross-team security initiatives without direct authority
- Experience aligning stakeholders with competing priorities
- Strong communicator, able to move between engineering detail and board-level risk narrative
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, or similar frameworks is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Lead the security working group, setting priorities and driving resolution
- Translate threat intelligence into actionable engineering tasks
- Deliver monthly risk summaries to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT)
- Own the full vulnerability lifecycle: discovery, triage, remediation, and reporting
- Coordinate incident response and set risk-based remediation timelines
- Own and evolve the security tool stack (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management) and integrate it into CI/CD pipelines
- Drive adoption of dependency scanning, artifact verification, and SBOM tooling, ensuring tools produce signal, not noise
Description
We are a specialist software company at a pivotal stage of growth, looking for a Security Operations Lead to join our team. This hands-on leadership role is at the heart of our Platform Engineering department, where you will help embed security across development, platform, and product. We offer benefits including private healthcare, life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity leave, electric vehicle and cycle-to-work salary sacrifice, a pension with NI savings and matched share scheme, flexible working, and employee discounts.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 79 different Cyber Security Engineer jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Cyber Security Engineers.