Senior Security Engineer

Key Responsibilities 🗝️

• Own and continuously improve our org-wide security posture
• Build our AI tool adoption security review and approval process
• Lead secure-by-design engineering practices across Tech, Ops, and Customer teams
• Maintain and develop our cloud security posture (AWS)
• Manage incidents, tooling, integrations, projects, vulnerability & threat hunting
• Conduct third-party tool risk assessments
• Manage the transition from our outgoing contractor CISO
• Influence security culture across the business without direct line authority

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀

• Security engineering background- you identify and build controls, not just document them.
• Cloud security experience (AWS)
• Familiarity with security/architecture frameworks
• Secure-by-design engineering principles
• 3+ years in a security engineering role
• Ability to influence without authority and communicate security risk in plain language

• Experience securing AI tools and LLM-based systems
• Vulnerability or Threat Hunting inside SaaS environments 
• ISO 27001 working knowledge (we're already certified)
• SaaS company experience

What we offer 🍉

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️ (This year it's Turin)
• 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest) 
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme 
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳