Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Role Description & Technical Scope
In this founding role, you’ll stand up security engineering from zero to go-live and scale it for a fast-growing, regulated trading platform. You’ll design guardrails and automation for cloud-native systems, balancing speed with risk management. You’ll partner with Infrastructure, Engineering, and product teams to embed security into CI/CD and incident response, influencing how we protect customers and regulators. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape security foundations for a market-leading exchange with CFTC obligations.
Pay / Benefits- Stock Options
- Pension Scheme
- Health Insurance
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Meals provided
- Cycle-to-Work Scheme
- Help stand up security engineering from the ground up through go-live and scale.
- Design and deploy security controls and guardrails across cloud-native platforms, including AI security for customer-facing and internal products.
- Automate security processes as code and embed compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct risk audits, translate findings into actionable engineering recommendations, and implement them.
- Monitor system access logs, detect anomalies, and support incident response and post-incident analysis.
- Plan and test security backups and disaster recovery to ensure platform resilience.
- Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and controls for DCM/DCO and regulatory examinations.
- Collaborate with business and engineering teams to translate technical work for non-technical audiences.
- Foster a culture of security ownership among engineers.
- Hands-on security engineering/DevSecOps experience in cloud-native, high-growth environments, preferably financial services or exchange infrastructure.
- Strong written and verbal communication about security risk and controls to external stakeholders.
- Familiarity with CFTC safeguards and related regulations.
- Solid understanding of application security (OWASP Top 10, NIST) and secure SDLC.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI) and security tools (Snyk, Aqua, Trivy, Checkov, Twistlock, Clair).
- Hands-on security in AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, and IaC.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and compliance-as-code practices.
- Automation proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Confident communicator
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Ownership mindset
- Cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Kubernetes and container security
- CI/CD security tooling
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 23 Oct 2026
- Location: United Kingdom
- Employment: Permanent
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Domain: General
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