Head of Security Engineering

• Lead, mentor and grow a team of security engineers across multiple domains
• Set priorities and drive delivery against a defined security engineering roadmap
• Promote a culture of ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align security initiatives with business risk
• Own and evolve the organisation’s security architecture and core tooling
• Design secure, scalable solutions across cloud-native and hybrid environments
• Evaluate and rationalise security technologies, ensuring effectiveness and simplicity
• Contribute directly to technical problem-solving and key design decisions
• Define and enforce security standards across cloud platforms and infrastructure
• Support secure design of containerised and distributed systems
• Ensure strong access control models and adoption of zero trust principles
• Guide engineering teams on secure infrastructure patterns
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
• Support secure coding practices, threat modelling and design reviews
• Work closely with engineering teams to drive “shift-left” security
• Help teams balance delivery speed with security requirements
• Improve detection capabilities through better logging, monitoring and engineering
• Drive automation across security operations to improve efficiency and response
• Use scripting and engineering approaches to integrate and scale security tooling
• Define meaningful KPIs and metrics to track effectiveness

• 10+ years’ experience in security engineering or broader information security roles
• Experience leading and developing technical security teams
• Strong hands-on background in cloud security (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Solid understanding of identity and access management concepts and controls
• Experience with detection, monitoring, or security operations tooling
• Knowledge of modern infrastructure (containers, cloud-native environments)
• Experience working closely with engineering and DevOps teams
• Ability to design and implement scalable security solutions
• Strong communication skills in English

Experience working in regulated or complex environments is a plus