Senior Security Engineer

Job title: Senior Security Engineer

Location: London, Bristol or Edinburgh (Including hybrid)

Salary: £88,000 - £110,000

Team: Security Engineering Team

Reporting To: Security Engineering Manager

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?

You’ll be joining the Security Engineering team, which sits within the Cyber Security squad in the Kaluza technology community. Our mission is to equip teams with the necessary tools and guidance to build and innovate whilst upholding security best practices and safeguarding our client’s data.

What will I be doing?

• Integrating security platforms and tooling to proactively prevent, accurately detect, and effectively respond to emerging security threats
• Partnering with Platform Engineering and IAM teams to embed Zero Trust architecture and ensure the implementation of strong privileged access management (PAM) controls
• Empowering Kaluza’s product teams to rapidly deliver secure systems by cultivating a strong, collaborative security culture
• Delivering actionable guidance to product and engineering teams on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating systemic risks and vulnerabilities
• Be responsible for defining and evolving security best practices for our systems, and for helping teams to apply these with expert advice and automation
• This is a varied role where you’ll be exposed to the full stack and will work across technologies including AWS, Cloudflare, Okta and Kubernetes. You’ll be focusing on projects spanning infrastructure, release engineering and security detection

Is this the job for me?

Ideally you’ll have:

• Scripting experience (Python, Go)
• Knowledge of AWS/GCP security best practices
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices
• Extensive experience working with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., terraform)
• Experience managing web application firewalls (e.g., Cloudflare)
• Awareness of common software security flaws and web application security best practices (OWASP top 10, CWE/SANS Top 25)
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles and security considerations
• An inquisitive and curious approach, with confidence to tackle difficult problems
• Problem solver / structured thinker

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:

Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working - we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life - our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.