Security Engineer (Fintech) – Build & Own Our Cloud Defense

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid London work

Health and dental cover

Learning budget

Home-office setup budget

Mental health days

Equity

Job summary

GetGround in London is looking for its first dedicated security engineer to own and advance our security posture across cloud, devices, identity and SaaS estate. This hands-on role includes running our SIEM, building detection rules and incident response playbooks while partnering with SRE, product and compliance teams.

You’ll shape security standards, policies and ISMS, implement controls aligned to ISO 27001, and help GetGround scale securely as we expand internationally.

Qualifications

• Hands-on detection and response in production SIEM or similar tooling.
• Stay up to date with attacker techniques and translate learnings into concrete defenses.
• Strong cloud security knowledge, preferably with GCP.
• Experience with EDR/identity tooling across devices and SaaS.
• Automation-first mindset; prefer IaC and AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own GetGround's security posture and define a pragmatic security roadmap.
• Monitor threat landscape and respond to incidents; lead incident response when needed.
• Run SIEM, collect and correlate logs from cloud, identity, endpoints and SaaS.
• Develop and maintain detection rules and incident playbooks.
• Protect data across channels: endpoints, email, cloud storage; enforce access controls.
• Collaborate with SRE, product, Compliance and DPO to secure infrastructure.
• Create and update security policies and ISMS; align with ISO 27001.

Skills

Detection & IR

Threat intel

Cloud security

Endpoint security

Automation mindset

Risk judgement

Ownership & communication

Job description

GetGround in London is looking for its first dedicated security engineer to own and advance our security posture across cloud, devices, identity and SaaS estate. This hands-on role includes running our SIEM, building detection rules and incident response playbooks while partnering with SRE, product and compliance teams.

You’ll shape security standards, policies and ISMS, implement controls aligned to ISO 27001, and help GetGround scale securely as we expand internationally.