Security Engineering Lead: Fintech Cloud & Automation

numi; England; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

numi is launching a greenfield security platform in the UK, built alongside a fast-moving fintech organisation. You will report to the CISO and lead a small team of engineers from zero, shaping security standards and tooling across cloud, network, identity and data.

You’ll embed with platform and engineering squads, driving policy-as-code, automation and proactive security controls while maintaining regulatory compliance and delivering fintech-grade security at pace.

Qualifications

• Background as both a security architect and a security engineer.
• Code-level experience building security tooling and automation.
• Experience hiring and leading a security team from scratch.
• Fintech or regulated financial services background; regulatory compliance awareness.

Responsibilities

• Define the security reference architecture across cloud, network, identity and data.
• Enforce standards via policy-as-code, automation and tooling.
• Lead and hire a small security team embedded with platform/engineering teams.

Skills

Security architecture

Security engineering

Python

Java

AWS

Kubernetes

Team leadership

Fintech regulatory knowledge

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

IAM

GuardDuty

Security Hub

Kubernetes security

Job description

numi is launching a greenfield security platform in the UK, built alongside a fast-moving fintech organisation. You will report to the CISO and lead a small team of engineers from zero, shaping security standards and tooling across cloud, network, identity and data.

You’ll embed with platform and engineering squads, driving policy-as-code, automation and proactive security controls while maintaining regulatory compliance and delivering fintech-grade security at pace.