Senior Security Engineer

Zepz; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

Healthcare benefits

Employee discounts

Office presence in London

Job summary

Zepz is scaling its security operations to protect its cross-border payments platforms. The role focuses on incident response, vulnerability management, and automation to accelerate detection, containment and remediation across cloud and containerised environments.

You will collaborate with engineering, operations and product teams to embed a security-first culture and continuously improve runbooks, tooling and incident reporting. London-based hybrid work is supported.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years in security operations or incident response.
• Experience with public cloud, containerised environments, and EuC.
• Proficient scripting and automation capabilities.
• Hands-on with SIEM and EDR tools.
• Familiarity with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST.

Responsibilities

• Respond to security incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• Investigate incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Communicate with stakeholders throughout the response process.
• Create run books for common scenarios to improve automation.
• Review tooling and automate using SIEM integrations and APIs.
• Manage threat and vulnerability management.
• Keep abreast of emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
• Own vulnerability reporting services and remediation metrics.
• Improve stakeholder collaboration and influence.
• Partner with engineering, operations, and business teams on security culture.
• Lead security education and awareness campaigns.
• Strive for continuous improvement.
• Stay updated with security ops developments.

Skills

Security fundamentals

Incident response

Scripting & automation

SIEM & EDR

IaC tooling

Security frameworks

Job description

Job Description

Our Meaningful Mission

At Zepz, we are all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech. Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections.

Who You'll Be Joining

We look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.

Our Core Commitments — What We Live By

• Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
• Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
• Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.

Perks of Joining Our Team

We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. While we have all the tools to work remotely, we value the purpose and benefits of in-person connections so we expect our teams to come to the office on a regular basis, and therefore be within a comfortable commutable distance from our London office. Alongside a great office environment, think unlimited annual leave , great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel

About the role and team

As we scale our security function to support our two payment brands and future acquisitions we need to ensure security operations are set up to scale.

We are looking for a person with expertise in incident response and vulnerability management who is interested in automation to help scale security operations and take the capability to the next level. We have a close knit highly competent team who you’ll be joining, working alongside them to run phishing campaigns, manage security incidents through our SIEM and contribute to purple team exercises alongside our internal red team capability.

What you will own:

• Respond to security incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• Investigate security incidents to identify root causes and prevent future incidents.
• Communicate with stakeholders throughout the incident response process.
• Create run books for common scenarios to improve consistency and prepare for automation.
• Review tooling and processes and automate wherever possible leaning on the ability of the SIEM to integrate to 3rd party APIs and follow workflow to enrich data as well as automatically close some incidents.
• Manage threat and vulnerability management
• Keep abreast of emerging threats & vulnerabilities
• Own the vulnerability reporting services and manage vulnerability team remediation metrics building relationships and influencing remediation outcomes through robust processes including reporting and risk management.
• Improve stakeholder collaboration & influence
• Partner with engineering, operations, and business teams to foster a security-first culture.
• Improve security education and awareness campaigns by leading multi disciplinary and multi media messaging campaigns.
• Strive for continuous improvement
• Stay updated with the latest developments in security operations and incident response.

Technical skills:

• Good security fundamentals e.g. networking, authentication, operating systems, cloud, encryption.
• Experience responding to incidents including EuC, public cloud server infrastructure and containerised environments.
• Experience of scripting and automation.
• Experience with SIEM and EDR tools.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with cyber security frameworks e.g. NIST

Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world.