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Security Engineer
Job Posted: an hour ago
Salary: £ 55,000 - 65,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Senior Security Engineer - Leeds - Up to £65,000 + Benefits
A forward-thinking and rapidly scaling organisation in the UK FinTech space is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping, implementing and maintaining security across its UK operations.
You'll be the hands-on technical security lead for the UK arm of the business - working closely with global security teams, outsourced partners and UK subsidiaries to ensure best-in-class protection, compliance and operational excellence. You'll own technical approval processes, lead security delivery across projects, and act as a key escalation point for incidents.
What you'll be doing:
Maintaining and optimising security controls across firewalls, EDR, WAF, cloud posture management and encryption
Leading patch, vulnerability and configuration management
Overseeing IAM, privileged access and onboarding/offboarding controls
Managing VPN, network and firewall security, including Zero Trust principles
Ensuring secure baselines across endpoints, integrating MDM and supporting incident response
Contributing to DevSecOps practices, CI/CD security integration and application testing
Supporting compliance initiatives (ISO27001, Cyber Essentials Plus etc.)
Promoting security awareness and collaborating with vendors, SOC and internal teams
What you'll bring:
A proactive and collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and proven experience securing cloud-first environments, remote endpoints and identity frameworks. Knowledge of tools such as Palo Alto, OKTA/Entra ID, Trend Micro, Prisma, GlobalProtect or similar is advantageous.
If you're excited by innovation, ownership and the chance to influence security from the ground up - we'd love to hear from you.
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