Senior AI Security Engineer: Threat Modelling & Guardrails

Ki Insurance; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Benefits package

Job summary

Ki Insurance is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to empower engineering teams to securely adopt AI and embed robust security controls across services and workflows. You will design cloud-native guardrails, automate security, and mentor across product groups to scale securely.

You will work across the development lifecycle to protect AI integrations and everyday tools, building a proactive, risk-conscious security culture within a fast-growing insurance technology environment.

Qualifications

• Experience securing AI/LLM applications and agentic tooling.
• Ability to write and review code (Python/TypeScript/Kotlin) and deploy secure infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security, threat modelling, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical guidance on securing AI-powered applications with OWASP ASVS and OWASP Top 10 for LLM apps.
• Lead threat modelling sessions for AI/agentic systems using STRIDE.
• Establish secure guardrails, telemetry, and safe-by-default configurations for AI tooling.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Kotlin

Terraform

DevOps

SRE

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Ki Insurance is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to empower engineering teams to securely adopt AI and embed robust security controls across services and workflows. You will design cloud-native guardrails, automate security, and mentor across product groups to scale securely.

You will work across the development lifecycle to protect AI integrations and everyday tools, building a proactive, risk-conscious security culture within a fast-growing insurance technology environment.