Senior Security Engineer — Observability & Automation

CFC Underwriting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CFC Underwriting seeks a Staff Security Engineer to advance security observability and automate controls across our global technology estate. You will partner with engineering and data teams to embed security into products, platforms and processes while driving measurable risk reduction at scale.

This senior IC role focuses on solving complex security challenges, turning security data into actionable insights, and raising the security maturity of a fast-moving technology organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong background in security engineering, information security, governance, risk or compliance.
• Experience building security controls and automated security solutions in modern cloud environments.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and security frameworks.
• Experience with APIs, automation, scripting and infrastructure-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building security observability capabilities across systems, infrastructure and applications.
• Developing automated control monitoring and continuous testing solutions for governance.
• Partnering with engineering, data and technology teams to embed security controls into products and platforms.
• Improving security event monitoring, exposure management and alerting capabilities.
• Conducting security reviews of new products and initiatives.
• Building security metrics and reporting to support decision-making.
• Evolving security policies, standards and guardrails through automation and measurable outcomes.
• Contributing to access governance and security control assurance across identities.

Skills

Security engineering

Information security

Governance & compliance

Cloud security

Tools

SIEM

Vulnerability management

Data protection

Endpoint security

Exposure management

Job description

CFC Underwriting seeks a Staff Security Engineer to advance security observability and automate controls across our global technology estate. You will partner with engineering and data teams to embed security into products, platforms and processes while driving measurable risk reduction at scale.

This senior IC role focuses on solving complex security challenges, turning security data into actionable insights, and raising the security maturity of a fast-moving technology organisation.