Staff Security Operations Engineer

Innovation Group; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is seeking a Staff Security Operations Engineer to lead their Security Operations. This role involves building a world-class security capability, focusing on cloud security and incident response while collaborating with product and technology teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background and a passion for innovation in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration

Benefits package

Recognition for extraordinary effort

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud-native stacks (Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience in threat hunting and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of Security Operations.
• Define and deliver SOC strategy and operational tooling.
• Drive DevSecOps agenda and partner with external security providers.

Skills

Cloud Security

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

DevSecOps

Automation

Tools

SIEM

DLP

XDR

Microsoft Defender

Darktrace

Wiz

Intune

Sentinel

Job description

Please visit our careers site to find out more about working at Ki

Job Details: Staff Security Operations Engineer

Full details of the job.

Vacancy Name: Staff Security Operations Engineer

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London

Role Details

Who are we?
Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers’ legs.

Ki’s mission is simple. Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning, and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days.

Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years.

Ki’s teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status quo and help it reach new horizons.

What you will be working on
We’re looking for a Staff Security Operations Engineer to lead the implementation and continuous evolution of Security Operations at Ki. This is a high-impact technical leadership role, focused on building a world-class capability that actively defends against emerging threats while enabling our product and platform to scale securely.

You’ll define and deliver our SOC strategy, including operational tooling, automation pipelines, and response workflows—ensuring Ki remains resilient, compliant, and ‘incident ready’. Working closely with Product and Technology teams, you’ll drive a DevSecOps agenda that embeds security throughout the development lifecycle, while partnering with our external security service providers to optimise detection and response capabilities.

This role demands a deep engineering mindset and an appetite for innovation. You’ll design and implement automated detection and response pipelines, integrate advanced threat intelligence, and lead the use of behavioural analytics and attack simulation across our environment. Your technical breadth will span modern cloud-native stacks (Azure, GCP), serverless and containerised architectures, and a wide range of security tooling including DLP, SIEM, CNAPP, and XDR, and tools such as Wiz, Darktrace, Microsoft Defender, Intune, and Sentinel. You will also bring hands-on experience in threat hunting, log analysis, red/blue team operations, and incident response coordination—building tooling and processes that respond to real-world threats at scale.

You will report directly into the CISO, with a clear mandate to build the Security Operations function, manage external providers, and evolve our capabilities into a high-performing unit. This role also offers the opportunity to shape Ki’s broader view of cyber risk—supporting collaboration with our underwriting teams and exploring innovative partnerships that enhance our product and client value.

If you're a cloud-focused, creative technologist who thrives at the intersection of security engineering and innovation, and you're ready to build and lead something exceptional, we’d love to hear from you.

Our culture

Inclusion & Diversity is at the heart of our business at Ki. We recognise that diversity in age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical ability, thought, and social background bring richness to our working environment. No matter who you are, where you’re from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you.

You’ll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.