Staff SecOps Engineer

Accountabilities:

• Lead incident response and detection activities, ensuring rapid identification, containment, and resolution of security threats across cloud and platform environments.


• Design, architect, and continuously evolve the SecOps platform to improve resilience, observability, and threat mitigation capabilities.


• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunting and operationalize threat intelligence to proactively identify vulnerabilities and emerging risks.


• Evaluate and guide cloud infrastructure security strategy, ensuring alignment with best practices and organizational requirements.


• Develop, promote, and embed security best practices across software engineering teams, including automation of secure development processes.


• Strengthen infrastructure security through the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and secure-by-design principles.


• Collaborate closely with engineering and platform teams to ensure secure system design across all stages of development and deployment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


• 8+ years of experience across DevOps, SecOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including at least 4 years with a dedicated focus on SecOps.


• Strong offensive security background, such as red teaming, penetration testing, or purple teaming experience.


• Deep expertise in cloud security, particularly within AWS environments.


• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and network security principles.


• Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience in production environments.


• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby for automation and tooling.


• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code tools and practices.


• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex systems and security risks.


• Excellent communication skills and ability to drive security awareness across engineering teams.


• A proactive, self-directed approach with the ability to manage priorities independently in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and employee stock options, enabling participation in company growth.


• Private medical insurance coverage.


• Wellbeing and lifestyle support benefits.


• Pension scheme with employer contributions.


• Annual learning and development budget with dedicated training days.


• Cycle-to-work scheme and workplace nursery support.


• Mental health and wellbeing platform access.


• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policies.


• 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays.


• Fully remote working within the UK, with optional access to a London office.


• Flexible working hours to support work-life balance.

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