Security Platform Engineer, UK Security Operations
Software Engineering, Operations
London, UK
Posted on Sep 25, 2026
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Must be a British citizen to meet compliance and security clearance requirements. Office location can either be a satellite site in Wiltshire, or London. This is an on-site position, requiring a standard five day per week schedule in the office Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Experience with technical troubleshooting and scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Experience with Kubernetes security, including workload isolation, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and network policies, containerisation, orchestration, and Kubernetes observability tools (e.g., Falco, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD).
- Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certifications in Security (e.g., GSEC, CISSP, CISM, OSCP).
- Experience with Kubernetes threat detection and anomaly detection.
- Experience with service mesh security concepts (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and workload identity.
- Experience in detection engineering, logging pipeline development, or SIEM tuning in containerised environments.
- Experience in contributing to security-focused open-source projects or internal security platform tooling.