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Leeds
2 months ago
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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.

People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas

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