Security Engineer

About the Role:

Drive security excellence across our technology stack whilst enabling business innovation. This role demands a generalist mindset with deep expertise, combining hands-on technical capability with strategic thinking to protect and enable Quantium's data-driven business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Security Platform Ownership

  : end-to-end responsibility for critical security platforms

• Detection and Response

  : real-time monitoring of security systems and applications, investigating anomalies, and escalating critical events to senior security and IT staff

• Risk-based decision making:

  independently assess, prioritise and remediate security risks aligned to business impact

• Cross-domain security

  : impact across multiple domains such as cloud security, application security, infrastructure security initiatives, detection and response etc.

• Collaborate:

  Partner with internal stakeholders to improve security outcomes, as well as with internal development teams to build pragmatic security solutions
• Drive automation of repetitive security tasks
• Show strong ownership of security issues and work to resolve and escalate where needed
• Contribute to security strategy and roadmap development\

Experience, Education & Skills:

• Demonstrated experience across at least 3 security domains (network, cloud, application, identity, AI, offensive, defensive, response, forensics etc.)
• Five years of experience in cybersecurity
• Track record of owning security outcomes end-to-end
• Experience translating technical risks into business language
• Provide ability to influence without authority
• Technical breadth
• Ownership mindset

The Following Skills and Experience Would Be an Advantage:

• Experience with AI Security practices and securing AI/ML systems
• Experience with Shift Left Security practices, including secure coding, DevSecOps, and security integration in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Cloud (Azure, GCP, AWS) Security configuration, and monitoring
• Experience with CSPM and CNAPP tools and methodologies
• Using tools like Terraform, Azure ARM templates, or GCP Deployment Manager

What Does Success Look Like?

• Drive measurable security risk reduction
• Proactive identification of issues and continuous improvement of security capabilities
• Help build a strong security culture
• Ensure operational excellence

Key People and Leadership Capabilities:

Self-aware

Agile and innovative

Achieve and perform

Purposeful and aligned

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