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Security Engineer

Radley James — United Kingdom · Posted ~2 hours ago

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Skills

Security Engineering Detection and Response Cloud Security Blue Team Security architecture IAM Authentication Authorization PKI Security automation Cloud Security tooling

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A newly established technology-focused financial firm is building its security function from the ground up and is seeking a Security Engineer to play a central technical role. You will establish detection and response capabilities, design security controls across cloud and applications, build identity and access infrastructure, automate security operations, and embed security into new systems.

Highlights

Greenfield security opportunity with substantial ownership and influence over security architecture, tooling, controls, and long-term strategy. Work closely with senior security leadership and engineering teams in a small, high-impact environment.

Description

A newly launched, technology-driven hedge fund is looking for a Security Engineer to work as a key technical partner to the CISO and help build the security function from the ground up. This is a genuine greenfield opportunity. You’ll join a small security team with huge ownership and influence over the firm’s security architecture, tooling and strategy. Rather than inheriting legacy systems and established processes, you’ll help decide what gets built and how. Key areas: Build detection & response capabilities, including alerting, threat detection, canaries and honeypots.Design security controls across cloud, infrastructure and applications.Build out IAM, authentication, authorisation and PKI.Develop security tooling and automation.Partner directly with engineering teams to embed security into new systems.Work closely with the CISO to shape the long-term security strategy. We’re looking for someone with strong Security Engineering, Detection & Response, Blue Team or Cloud Security experience who enjoys being hands-on, solving difficult technical problems and building from scratch. A rare opportunity to join a well-funded hedge fund at inception, work directly alongside the CISO, and have genuine ownership over how the security function is built.