Senior Security Engineer — Cloud, Threat Hunting & DevSecOps

SimCorp; Województwo mazowieckie; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SimCorp, a leading FinTech provider, is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Platform Security team. You will be a senior technical contributor responsible for protecting our products, cloud environments, platforms, and operations from evolving cyber threats.

You will collaborate across Engineering, Platform, Product, Architecture, and Security to lead security initiatives, conduct assessments, threat modelling, incident response, threat hunting, and build secure CI/CD practices that empower

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering initiatives from planning through implementation, driving improvements across cloud, application, infrastructure, and operational security domains.
• Conduct security assessments, architecture reviews, threat modelling exercises, and risk evaluations, helping engineering teams identify and address security gaps.
• Analyze security challenges across multiple technology domains, identify root causes, and work with platform teams to design and implement sustainable solutions.
• Contribute to the development and tuning of detection capabilities using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, KQL analytics, and related security tooling.
• Support the definition and implementation of logging, monitoring, and event collection standards across the platform.
• Participate in incident response activities, including investigation, containment, recovery, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities across environments and systems within your areas of ownership.
• Develop and improve incident response playbooks, security runbooks, and operational security processes.
• Translate threat intelligence, incident findings, and emerging risks into tangible improvements to security controls, monitoring capabilities, and engineering practices.
• Identify security risks proactively and define mitigation strategies before issues can impact the business.
• Lead or contribute to secure software development lifecycle initiatives, security taskforces, architecture discussions, and cross‑functional security programs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines, development workflows, infrastructure platforms, and cloud architectures.
• Serve as a trusted security advisor for engineers, architects, and product teams, helping guide secure decision‑making.
• Communicate technical risks, security recommendations, and incident findings effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Job description

SimCorp, a leading FinTech provider, is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Platform Security team. You will be a senior technical contributor responsible for protecting our products, cloud environments, platforms, and operations from evolving cyber threats.

You will collaborate across Engineering, Platform, Product, Architecture, and Security to lead security initiatives, conduct assessments, threat modelling, incident response, threat hunting, and build secure CI/CD practices that empower