Senior Security Engineer - Cloud & AI Guardrails

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London Borough of Enfield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build and run security controls for our cloud-native platforms. You will work hands-on in a global Security Engineering team, turning policy into code and helping engineers ship secure features daily.

You will lead vulnerability scanning, AI security guardrails, and risk-based security improvements across AWS, Azure and GCP environments, collaborating with product teams to embed security into the DevOps lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Design, build and deploy security controls and guardrails across cloud-native platforms.
• Run vulnerability scans, network and web app assessments, and intrusion detection to close gaps.
• Automate security processes as code within CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct risk audits and translate findings into actionable engineering recommendations.
• Monitor logs and support incident response.
• Plan and test security backup and disaster recovery processes.
• Collaborate with 1st/2nd line InfoSec teams and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy security controls and guardrails across JET's cloud-native platforms.
• Run vulnerability scans, network and web application vulnerability scans, and intrusion detection to identify and close gaps before they're exploited.
• Automate security processes as code, embedding compliance and IaC checks into CI/CD pipelines shipping over 100 times daily.
• Conduct risk audits and assessments, translating findings into practical recommendations for engineering teams.
• Monitor and analyse system access logs, flagging anomalies and supporting incident response.
• Plan and test security backup and disaster recovery processes to keep JET's platforms resilient.
• Partner with 1st and 2nd line InfoSec teams as customers of your solutions, translating technical work for product and engineering audiences.
• Practical experience writing and deploying applications or tooling into cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong, demonstrable skills deploying AI security solutions, guardrails, and defences for AI systems used by customers.
• Proficiency in at least one of C#, Python, Java, PowerShell or Bash, with a track record of automating security processes.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Compliance as Code practices.
• Comfort operating in Agile, DevOps-driven teams with frequent, continuous delivery.
• Confident stakeholder management, translating security risk and technical decisions into language product and engineering teams act on.
• A collaborative, evangelist mindset, building trust so others choose secure defaults rather than having security imposed on them.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Security automation

Vulnerability scanning

CI/CD security

IAAC/Compliance as Code

Incident response

Scripting languages

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build and run security controls for our cloud-native platforms. You will work hands-on in a global Security Engineering team, turning policy into code and helping engineers ship secure features daily.

You will lead vulnerability scanning, AI security guardrails, and risk-based security improvements across AWS, Azure and GCP environments, collaborating with product teams to embed security into the DevOps lifecycle.