Hands-On Senior App Security Engineer – Remote UK

Anson McCade Pty; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Anson McCade Pty is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for a fully remote UK contract. The role focuses on implementing and maintaining robust application security controls within a large-scale health research platform.

You will collaborate with software engineers, DevOps and security architects to embed security into the development lifecycle. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring expertise in SAST, DAST, SCA, secure coding practices and cloud-native security across

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience in application security engineering.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain SAST, DAST and SCA in CI/CD pipelines.
• Embed automated security scanning and vulnerability detection into software delivery.
• Collaborate with developers to remediate vulnerabilities.
• Strengthen SSDLC practices across engineering teams.
• Conduct threat modelling, secure code reviews and API security assessments.
• Develop security automation using Python, Terraform and related tech.

Skills

SAST tooling

DAST tooling

SCA tooling

CI/CD integration

Python scripting

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure

GitHub Actions

OWASP Top 10

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure

Kubernetes

AKS

Terraform

Python

Job description

Anson McCade Pty is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for a fully remote UK contract. The role focuses on implementing and maintaining robust application security controls within a large-scale health research platform.

You will collaborate with software engineers, DevOps and security architects to embed security into the development lifecycle. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring expertise in SAST, DAST, SCA, secure coding practices and cloud-native security across