​Software Security Engineer - Permanent

Location: Oxford, United Kingdom

Hybrid Working Model

Competitive Annual Salary + Bonus on offer

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

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This role will see you working across software engineering, modelling, and data science, bringing your full self, including 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.

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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.

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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.