Senior Security Platform Engineer

Rws Gruppe; Thatcham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

RWS is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement and continuously improve enterprise security across cloud, infrastructure, software engineering and end-user environments. You will partner with Security Operations, Governance, Engineering and Infra teams to build security platforms, automation and guardrails for the enterprise.

You will combine deep technical expertise with stakeholder engagement to simplify security through engineering and drive secure delivery at scale across

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Security Engineering, Platform Engineering or DevSecOps roles.
• Experience implementing enterprise security technologies.
• Experience designing secure cloud environments.
• Experience integrating security capabilities into engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of automation and platform engineering principles.
• Experience working within complex, global technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage strategic security platforms across the enterprise.
• Lead onboarding and integration of security tools into a centralised security ecosystem.
• Develop standardised security services and reusable capabilities.
• Reduce complexity through platform rationalisation and standardisation.
• Improve visibility across cloud, endpoint, identity and application environments.
• Design and implement automated security controls and workflows.
• Integrate security tools through APIs and orchestration platforms.
• Automate vulnerability management, compliance validation and security monitoring activities.
• Eliminate manual processes wherever practical.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and policy-as-code capabilities.
• Build and maintain secure cloud security capabilities across Azure, AWS and SaaS platforms.
• Implement CSPM, workload protection and cloud-native security controls.
• Develop secure landing zones and security baselines.
• Create reusable cloud security patterns and reference architectures.
• Support Zero Trust and identity-driven security initiatives.
• Embed security controls into development pipelines.
• Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning and CI/CD security tooling.
• Create secure development guardrails that support engineering productivity.
• Develop reusable security patterns for development teams.
• Enable secure AI and cloud-native application delivery.
• Assist with implementation of modern identity security controls.
• Support Privileged Access Management and access governance initiatives.
• Deploy and maintain DLP, data classification and information protection technologies.
• Integrate identity, endpoint and data protection controls into a unified security architecture.
• Partner closely with development and infrastructure teams.
• Provide practical security guidance and technical leadership.
• Promote security-by-design and security-by-default principles.
• Help teams adopt standardised security tooling and practices.
• Act as a security champion for engineering transformation activities.
• Monitor effectiveness of security controls.
• Identify opportunities for increased automation and simplification.
• Contribute to security architecture and platform roadmaps.
• Support investigations, incident response activities and root cause analysis.
• Stay current with emerging threats, technologies and engineering practices.

Skills

Security Platform Engineering

DevSecOps

Automation

Cloud Security

Identity & Endpoint Security

Engineering Enablement

Job description

RWS is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement and continuously improve enterprise security across cloud, infrastructure, software engineering and end-user environments. You will partner with Security Operations, Governance, Engineering and Infra teams to build security platforms, automation and guardrails for the enterprise.

You will combine deep technical expertise with stakeholder engagement to simplify security through engineering and drive secure delivery at scale across