Security Engineer

Cubiq Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Cubiq Recruitment in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced security professional to join the corporate security team. You will help protect the workforce, identities, and sensitive data behind rapid scientific discovery.

This role emphasizes IAM design and onboarding/offboarding, data governance across Google Workspace, Confluence, Jira and Slack, incident response support, and SAAS security posture improvements, with AI-driven automation to accelerate triage.

Qualifications

• Strong corporate security background with IAM, onboarding/offboarding, and directory/group management.
• Hands-on with SSO, user lifecycle and identity integrations in multi-org environments.
• Ability to code Python for internal tooling and automations.
• Familiar with SaaS security posture management and misconfigurations.
• Experience with DLP, data classification and governance across corporate apps.
• Experience conducting vendor security assessments and audits.
• Incident response participation and daily alert triage.
• Interest in AI-driven security workflows and automation.
• Good communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Experience in high-growth tech or regulated sectors (life sciences).
• Knowledge of OWASP and related security frameworks.
• Familiar with GitHub Enterprise security and secret scanning.
• GDPR, ISO 27001 knowledge; security certifications (Security+, CISSP, CISA, GSEC) desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and support the corporate IAM setup, including group structures and onboarding/offboarding.
• Audit corporate systems and run tooling from logging to DLP and data labelling.
• Improve data governance across Workspace, Confluence, Jira and Slack with practical models.
• Collaborate with Detection and Response to triage alerts and lead responses where needed.
• Embed security into operations: onboarding new tools, data transfers and integrations.
• Run vendor and software audits and tighten SaaS security posture across the estate.
• Use AI and automation to take routine work off your plate and speed up triage.
• Be the approachable security contact for teams without adding friction.

Skills

IAM security

Python basics

SaaS Security Posture

DLP & data governance

Vendor security assessments

Incident response & triage

Automation & AI in security

Communication skills

High-growth / regulated industries

OWASP & security frameworks

AI-driven automation

HPC security patterns

GitHub Enterprise security & secret Sc

GDPR & ISO27001

Tools

AppOmni

Adaptive Shield

Job description

This company is using AI to speed up the discovery of new medicines. The work moves fast, and the teams need to keep pace, so security has to enable that pace rather than slow it down.

You would sit on the corporate side of security, protecting the workforce, the identity systems, and the sensitive data behind the science.

The role:

• Design and support the corporate IAM setup, including group structures, identity integrations, and clean onboarding and offboarding
• Audit corporate systems and run the tooling behind them, from logging and monitoring to DLP and data labelling
• Improve data governance across Google Workspace, Confluence, Jira, and Slack by learning what people actually need and building workable models around it
• Work with the Detection and Response team to triage alerts and help lead the response when something goes wrong
• Build security into everyday operations, like onboarding new tools, setting up data transfers, and handling external integrations
• Run vendor and software audits, and tighten up SaaS security posture across the estate
• Use AI and automation to take the routine work off your plate and speed up triage
• Be the friendly point of contact who helps teams stay secure without adding friction

About you:

• Comfortable navigating complex, multi-org corporate systems and the workflows behind them
• Strong grounding in corporate systems security and IAM, with hands-on SSO, user lifecycle, and directory or group experience
• Can write basic code (Python) across internal tools like Slack and Google Workspace.
• Know your way around SaaS Security Posture Management and can spot misconfigurations, ideally with tools like AppOmni or Adaptive Shield
• Have worked with DLP controls, data classification, and corporate data governance
• Have run or executed standardised vendor security assessments
• Have supported incident response and daily alert triage
• Lean towards automation and enjoy bringing AI into security workflows
• Communicate well with technical and non-technical people alike
• Experience in high-growth tech, or within a regulated industry such as life sciences.
• Familiarity with the OWASP and other security frameworks.
• Built or integrated AI-driven automation or agentic workflows for security
• Understanding of security patterns for HPC environments
• Familiar with GitHub Enterprise security settings and secret scanning
• Know GDPR and ISO 27001, and hold something such as Security+, CISSP, CISA, or GSEC

What can you expect?

Market-leading salary plus equity, bonus, and benefits

Hybrid, three days a week in the office. (Central London)