Paritas is partnered with a leading Energy Analytics client who are looking to add a Software Security Engineer to their Oxford based team.

Competitive Annual Salary + Bonus on offer

This role will see you working across software engineering, modelling, and data science, bringing your security knowledge and expertise to the business. As a Security Engineer, you will enable colleagues to improve the security of software development lifecycles, ensure secure operational practices, and support compliance.

Key responsibilities at a glance

• Cultivate a security culture. Work with product and engineering colleagues, be the security champion that strives to prioritize sustainable controls and drives real risk reduction outcomes.
• Build secure products. Ensure security is considered throughout the product and software development life cycle.
• Provide security best practice, build security design patterns, complete security architecture reviews, threat models and risk assessments. Help solve engineering problems by implementing technical controls to mitigate risk.
• Provide internal security consultancy and lead on audit engagements, risk activities and project initiatives. Work closely with colleagues to ensure effective technology risk management.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Degree in a computer science-related subject or comparable working experience related to the role.
• Working knowledge of best practices for securing micro-service architectures.
• Working knowledge of modern secure SDLC practices with a focus on embedding security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Working experience of the above concepts in the context of at least one major public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Understanding of global security standards (like SOC2 or ISO 27001) and regulatory requirements, and experience in maintaining compliance with these.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We want you to coach other team members on secure coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
• Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn technologies and patterns quickly.
• Ability to see the long term. We don’t want you to sacrifice the future for the present.
• Clarity of thought. We operate quickly and efficiently, and we value people who are economical with their time and clear with their opinions.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Computer and Network Security
• Software Development
• Energy Technology