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PeopleGenius

Senior Security Engineer

Remote

England, United kingdom

£ 80,000 /year

Senior

Full Time

11-12-2025

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Skills

Leadership Incident Response Encryption Endpoint Security Monitoring Configuration Management Architecture

Job Specifications

THIS IS A FULL TIME PERMANENT ROLE, REMOTE THOUGH TEAM MEETINGS ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH IN EITHER WEST YORKSHIRE OR OXFORD - WE'LL NEED CANDIDATES TO BE UK-BASED AND YOU'LL HAVE TO PASS VETTING - DBS AND CREDIT DUE TO THIS BEING A REGULATED BUSINESS.

The Client:

FinTech, Global Market-changing, proven quantity expanding globally. You won't have heard of them yet, though they'll be a household name in a few years. Benefits, Bonsuses, work / life balance are unrivalled - though this isn't for the feint of heart, an established Business in growth phase and a true Unicorn.

The Role:

The Senior Security Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership within the UK, ensuring that cyber security strategy and architecture defined by Group are implemented effectively across UK subsidiaries, aligned with local jurisdictional compliance requirements. This role bridges between Group Security, outsourced partners, and UK subsidiaries (~5 entities in total), ensuring successful delivery of projects, uplift initiatives, and BAU operational excellence.This position will own UK technical approvals, impact assessments, and project-specific security delivery, acting as the local escalation point for incidents and implementations.

Snippet of your day to day (not exhaustive nor are any two the same!)

Maintenance and Operational Security
Control Effectiveness
Patch & Vulnerability Management
Configuration Management
Tool, Infrastructure, and Encryption Management - maintenance and optimisation of
VPN, Network & Firewall Security
Endpoint Security
DevSecOps & Application Security
Monitoring, Threat Management & Incident Response
Governance, Compliance & Continuous Improvement

You:

We don't have room for shrinking violets - you'll be smart, outgoing, bright - on an upwards trajectory career wise and hungry to make a name for yourself. This name will look fantastic on your CV. You'll be surrounded by some highly cerebral and motivated colleagues.

You’ll be an accomplished Security Engineer / Senior Engineer with experience from the UK
Industry agnostic though preference would be Financial Services, Legal, Consulting or similar
Experience in the practical protection of a remote working laptop estate and SaaS cloud solutions.
Experience in identity and access management solutions.
Experience in device business automation and updates.
Experience in the security aspects of cloud web application hosting and defence measures like WAF
You'll also be flexible in terms of working hours - sometimes there'll be early starts and sometimes later finishes due to the parent company being abroad

Stack – you don’t need them all:

Palo Alto Cortex ERD
Palo Alto Global Protect VPN
Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Firewall
Nucleus vulnerability management
Airlocker application whitelisting
Trend Micro and Abnormal email security
OKTA / Entra IDAM

Call any of the team at PeopleGenius for more information - A full role profile is always available for relevant Candidates. For this role you'll be credit and DBS checked, therefore you'll need to be a UK Resident with a relevant skills set and be willing to work from West Yorkshire or London / Oxfordshire, be happy to attend the office a few times a month AND be willing to work the odd early morning / late night.

As aforementioned, this client is a career maker. We love working with them and have done since day dot. The interview process will be 3 x fold and we can expedite for the right people.

We'd like to have an initial teams/zoom with those selected.

Keywords: Security Engineer, Senior Security Engineer, Palo Alto, SOC, SOC 2, ISO27001, CIS, SAST, DAST, VPN, Vulnerability, Pen Testing, InfoSec, CyberSec,

About the Company

PeopleGenius are a specialist Recruitment Consultancy with a strong focus on Analytical and Data-Driven Recruitment, as well as offering Volume Recruitment Solutions. Our specialities however are by no means our limits, testament to which is our client list – ranging from Boutique Analytics and Marketing Consultancies to many of the FTSE 250, Global Banking corporations and Billion Pound Media Agencies. We offer a no-nonsense consultative approach to recruitment solutions, providing candidates and clients alike with a clear... Know more