Managing Engineer - Security Software

Our client is seeking an experienced Managing Security Engineer to lead a high performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating security controls as scalable software products. This is a hands on leadership role that combines technical expertise, people management, and delivery ownership within a modern, cloud first engineering environment.

You will play a key role in embedding secure by default practices across enterprise platforms and software delivery pipelines, ensuring security capabilities are integrated seamlessly into the development lifecycle while maintaining an excellent developer experience.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Define and drive the technical direction of the team, ensuring high quality delivery across design, development, deployment, and production support.
• Act as a hands on technical leader, contributing to architecture reviews, technical decision making, code reviews, and critical implementations where required.
• Own operational outcomes for security products, focusing on reliability, performance, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, platform teams, and engineering stakeholders to align priorities, roadmaps, and delivery objectives.
• Foster a strong engineering culture centred around modern development practices, fast feedback loops, and continuous learning.
• Translate complex security requirements into scalable engineering solutions and reusable platform capabilities.
• Support agile delivery processes while maintaining a strong focus on business and engineering outcomes.

• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Minimum 5 years' professional software engineering experience, including hands on development using modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Proven experience owning and supporting production systems delivering measurable reliability, security, or performance outcomes.
• At least 2 years' experience providing technical leadership to engineering teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, and code reviews.
• Strong background in designing and operating scalable distributed systems within cloud environments.
• Experience working with microservices architectures, APIs, and backend services.
• Practical experience applying modern engineering practices including CI/CD, test driven development, pair programming, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience working in agile environments and partnering closely with product and engineering stakeholders.

• Strong background in security engineering, application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, or secure software development practices.
• Experience designing and operating security controls within CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or shared platform services.
• Ability to influence technical strategy and drive adoption of secure engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.
• Exposure to cloud native technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and/or Azure.
• Familiarity with security metrics and operational indicators used to measure adoption, reliability, and risk reduction.
• Ability to balance security requirements, engineering delivery, and developer experience effectively.

This position includes line management responsibilities and serves as the first level manager for a team of engineers.

• Competitive salary package
• Annual bonus scheme
• Pension contribution
• Annual salary review process
• Life assurance and income protection
• Private medical and dental cover
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Paid volunteering days
• Cycle to work scheme
• Ongoing professional development, certifications, and career progression opportunities