- A background in Cybersecurity, anywhere ranging from system level to the application layer
- Strong software engineering experience, with proficiency in at least one backend language
- Work experience in production Kubernetes and Linux environments
- The Seniority to Lead and/or Mentor a team from a technical perspective
Lead Security Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Understanding Recruitment
Description
Lead Security Software Engineer
We are seeking a software-focused Lead Security Engineer to join a 1Billion user social media giant, dealing with the complexity of mega scale systems and infrastructure.
The Security group come from diverse technical backgrounds, Reliability, Software Engineering and Security Engineering, and have a broad remit ensuring high availability and performance, and currently have a particular focus on security system efficiency, monitoring and sustainability, looking at threat intelligence, IAM, data and application security across the Kubernetes and Linux based environments.
They are very open to background, but tend to look for those from strong development backgrounds (Backend Language agnostic), who have worked in securing large scale post-production container based environments, and who are comfortable with complex Linux challenges.
We are looking for a Lead Security Engineer with:
Salary: £160,000 - £200,000 + substantial bonus + RSUs
Location: Farringdon, London. Four days per week in office, one day remote