Senior Security Engineer

Lawrence Harvey are partnering with an innovative technology-driven organization that is investing heavily in modern security engineering. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building security capabilities from the ground up through software engineering, automation, and AI rather than relying solely on commercial security products.

You'll join a highly technical team responsible for developing scalable security platforms, automating security operations, and enabling secure adoption of AI across the business. The environment values engineering-first thinking, innovation, and solving complex security challenges through custom-built solutions.

What You'll Do

Security Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain internal security platforms, services, APIs, automation, and engineering tools.
• Build scalable solutions that improve vulnerability management, security monitoring, incident response, access governance, and cloud security operations.
• Develop detections-as-code, automated security workflows, and reusable security services that improve operational efficiency.
• Create engineering-driven security capabilities that enable development teams to move quickly while maintaining strong security standards.

AI & Security Innovation

• Help secure AI-enabled applications, services, and development workflows.
• Develop security controls and guardrails to identify and reduce emerging risks associated with AI technologies.
• Build monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for AI-driven systems.
• Leverage AI to automate investigations, accelerate security operations, improve decision-making, and reduce manual effort.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to enable secure adoption of emerging technologies.

Cloud, Identity & Application Security

• Build security detections across cloud infrastructure, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems.
• Design and implement security controls supporting workforce identities, privileged access, machine identities, and cloud-native environments.
• Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security design assessments for new services, APIs, infrastructure, and applications.
• Promote secure-by-design engineering practices across technical teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in Security Engineering or a closely related cybersecurity discipline.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Strong software engineering mindset with experience building production-quality security tools, automation, or internal platforms.
• Demonstrated experience developing scalable security solutions rather than relying exclusively on commercial products.
• Proficiency with Python or another modern programming language used for automation and security engineering.
• Experience working with APIs, open-source technologies, and cloud-native services.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, operating systems, identity, and modern security principles.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with technologies supporting cloud security, SIEM, EDR, IAM, SaaS security, application security, network security, or security monitoring.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.