Chief Security Engineering & Automation Lead

Our Future Health UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Head of Security Engineering to lead a growing team and shape the future of security engineering. You will drive engineering best practices, champion an everything-as-code approach, and hands-on implement critical security changes across a cloud-native environment.

You'll mentor engineers, manage backlogs, and partner with security, product, and risk teams to align with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of security engineering teams.
• Hands-on security engineering background with delivery mindset.
• Expertise securing cloud-native environments, particularly Azure.
• Experience building and operating security platforms and tooling.
• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code mindset.
• Policy-as-code awareness is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve the security engineering function across the organisation.
• Coach, mentor and develop engineers and contractors.
• Define strategy for tooling, automation, CI/CD and secure delivery pipelines.
• Ensure reliability, security and availability of core security services.
• Collaborate with Director of Information Security and peers on priorities.
• Measure performance with KPIs and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Security leadership

Hands-on security engineering

Cloud security (Azure)

Security platforms & tooling

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Threat intelligence / CTI

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Azure

CI/CD tooling

Security automation

Job description

Our Future Health UK is seeking a Head of Security Engineering to lead a growing team and shape the future of security engineering. You will drive engineering best practices, champion an everything-as-code approach, and hands-on implement critical security changes across a cloud-native environment.

You'll mentor engineers, manage backlogs, and partner with security, product, and risk teams to align with business objectives.