Lead Software Engineer, Cyber Security Controls Automation
London Stock Exchange Group2 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build software and automation for cyber security control monitoring, testing, reporting, and evidence collection.
- Develop command-line tools, APIs, integrations, and workflows that simplify assurance activities.
- Integrate with security platforms, risk systems, cloud services, SIEM, vulnerability management, IAM, EDR, and other engineering tools.
- Create repeatable evidence-generation processes for audits, regulatory reviews, customer assessments, and compliance activities.
- Use structured and unstructured data to identify control gaps, weaknesses, trends, and risk exposure.
- Translate technical control activity into clear, auditable evidence and reporting.
- Improve control design, implementation, measurement, and documentation, including policy-as-code approaches.
- Provide technical feedback through code and design reviews and help develop standards and policy documentation.
Requirements
- Previous experience building command-line tools and working with web-based systems and APIs.
- Commercial experience with Rust, TypeScript, Python, Go, and JavaScript.
- Knowledge of algorithms and data structures for handling large volumes of data and data-intensive systems.
- Experience providing engineering feedback through code review.
- Exposure to multiple programming languages, frameworks, and cloud technologies.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, maintainability, documentation, and secure coding practices.
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data to generate meaningful control insight.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineers, risk teams, auditors, and senior stakeholders.
- Helpful qualifications include cyber security, control testing, evidence, risk management, regulated-environment, consulting, policy documentation, policy-as-code, continuous control monitoring, and relevant cyber security, cloud, software engineering, or risk certification experience.
Benefits
- Healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days, and wellbeing initiatives.
- Equal-opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for religious practices, mental health, and physical or disability needs.
- Opportunities to participate in fundraising and volunteering through the LSEG Foundation.
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