Cyber security engineer in fintech

Are you a senior, hands-on Cyber Security Engineer with a strong networking background, ready to take ownership of security within a scale-up technology business? You could be progressing your career at a well-funded and profitable FinTech scale-up.

• As the Lead Cyber Security Engineer, you'll take ownership of day-to-day security engineering, improving existing controls and developing the organisation's security architecture as the business scales.
• Network security will be a key focus, including firewalls, secure connectivity, access controls and the continued development of Zero Trust principles.
• You'll also oversee improvements across endpoint hardening, vulnerability management, IAM, cloud security and internal controls.
• Working with an outsourced SOC and MDR provider, you'll ensure security monitoring and escalation processes are effective, while helping progress initiatives such as SASE and SOC 2 compliance.
• Alongside hands-on technical delivery, you'll work with stakeholders across the business, communicate risks and recommendations clearly and help improve security awareness through internal training.
• This is a senior individual contributor role where you'll have the freedom to identify problems, take ownership and deliver meaningful improvements.

• You're an experienced Cyber Security Engineer with a broad spectrum of knowledge
• You have experience within Financial Services with a good knowledge of governance, risk and compliance requirements
• You have deep networking and infrastructure security experience, including firewalls, secure networking and network layer controls
• You have a good knowledge of IAM, endpoint security, hardening and vulnerability management.
• You have an understanding of cloud security, with the ability to develop this further (they use GCP)
• You have experience of improving security controls, architecture and operational processes
• You're familiarity with outsourced SOC / MDR services, Zero Trust, SASE or SOC 2
• You have excellent communication skills, able to explain technical risks and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders
• You have a proactive, commercially aware approach, with the confidence to drive improvements independently
• You're degree educated in a STEM discipline

• You'll join colleagues in the Central London office with flexibility to work from home twice a week in a hybrid model.
• As a Lead Cyber Security Engineer you will earn a competitive salary (to £100k) plus pension and other benefits.