Senior Security Engineer

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London
6 days ago
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Job Description

As one of our Security Engineers, you are passionate about security and great engineering practises.  You will join a multidisciplinary team, working together with other Security Engineers, Product Managers and Security teams.  As an Engineer, you will design, build and deliver secure, high-quality enterprise solutions across numerous initiatives within the organisation, spreading your security knowledge to an ever-expanding engineering community, increasing our security posture and helping identify and reduce our risk exposure when building applications.  

You will use your strong software/platform engineering skillset to help design and build tooling and integrations across a wide range of areas.  You will gain deep knowledge on automated security tools and support the delivery and maintenance of these tools to empower engineers to build high quality, secure applications with minimal disruption to their delivery.  Your impact will be felt within Cyber Security and wider by our tech communities, engineers and operations teams. 

Responsibilities 

  • Drive security efforts across ASOS Engineering (SecDevOps, Secure SDLC) through building scalable security tool integrations into the developer’s workflow. 
  • Provide documentation, training, guidance and support to teams using our tools. 
  • Develop tools, services and scripts to support with internal Security projects. 
  • Support with security risk decisions and influence technical architecture. 
  • Support with Application Security Assessments (incl. Threat Modelling, Attack Surface Analysis, Application Security Architecture Reviews and Security Code Reviews) where required. 
  • Support with security training around Security Best Practices. 
  • Understand and support teams with adherence to regulations (e.g. GDPR, PCI-DSI) 
  • Defining and explaining security non-functional requirements for development teams. 
  • Ability to articulate mitigation and development techniques around emerging threats to technical and non-technical stakeholders 
  • Work with other Security Engineers on collaborative projects and deliverables that support other Security & Fraud functions and business needs. 
  • Stay updated on emerging security threats, industry trends, and evolving technologies. 


Qualifications

About You 

  • Experience in Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or related fields, with an emphasis on automation, DevOps practices, and tooling.
  • Strong background in scripting and automation within a DevOps or continuous delivery environment.
  • Solid understanding of key security scanning practices, including static and dynamic analysis, dependency and infrastructure scanning, and credential detection.
  • Hands-on experience implementing application security tools and practices.
  • Experience developing applications, scripts, pipelines, or automation using modern programming languages, containerization, and orchestration tools.
  • Good grasp of object-oriented programming principles and commonly used programming languages.
  • Familiarity with APIs, including REST and GraphQL.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Experience working within agile methodologies and an understanding of the software development lifecycle, including secure development practices.
  • Knowledge of DevOps/DevSecOps principles, security best practices, and fostering a culture of security within development teams.



Additional Information

BeneFITS’ 

  • Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!) 
  • ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business) 
  • Employee sample sales  
  • Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials 
  • 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment 
  • Discretionary bonus scheme  
  • Private medical care scheme 
  • Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits 

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