Kainos

Senior Security Engineer

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27 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate daily with application development and cloud platform teams to plan and prioritize security requirements within the secure software development lifecycle.
  • Recommend cloud security best practices and automate compliance with security baselines such as CIS Benchmarks.
  • Implement automated security tooling in continuous integration pipelines to validate security requirements and identify potential issues.
  • Work with external organizations to plan, scope, and facilitate penetration tests.
  • Review and prioritize security-tool outputs into actionable security stories for delivery teams.
  • Verify the implementation of security principles, architectural patterns, and requirements.
  • Drive adoption of vulnerability management, threat modelling, and other cybersecurity practices within Agile delivery teams.
  • Coach and develop more junior team members.

Requirements

  • Experience implementing application security or cloud platform security.
  • Experience in the Defence Sector and active security clearance.
  • Detailed understanding of web application security.
  • Understanding of modern cryptography, including encryption in transit, encryption at rest, hashing, and digital signatures.
  • Understanding of threat modelling, vulnerability management, application security testing, and penetration testing.
  • Experience integrating static and dynamic analysis tools into the secure software development lifecycle.
  • Experience using Git and Bash, PowerShell, Python, Java, .NET, JavaScript, Terraform, ARM Templates, or Ansible to automate tasks.
  • Ability to explain security issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • An industry-recognized cybersecurity qualification is desirable.
  • AWS or Azure mid-level certifications are desirable.
  • Participation in cybersecurity communities such as OWASP, HackTheBox, or CTFs is desirable.
  • Experience with Scrum or Kanban software development methodologies is desirable.

Benefits

  • People-first culture with support for professional growth and development.
  • Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Recruitment accommodations and adjustments available through the talent acquisition team.

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About Kainos

1,001-5,000 employees
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