Lead Security Engineer

Lead Security Engineer Hybrid (London) £77,000 + Bonus and Benefits A well-established eComm business is building out its security engineering capability, and wants an engineer to own it. This is a build role - the controls and programmes here are early-stage, not inherited. They''re prioritising IT foundation and attitude over years in a security job title. If you came up through infrastructure, networking or identity and have moved into security, they want to hear from you. The role Reporting to the Information Security Manager, you''ll cover a cloud-first estate spanning GCP and AWS, marketplace technology, SaaS and in-house engineering. Security maturity is early, so you''ll be standing capabilities up and driving adoption, not maintaining someone else''s platform. Your first priorities: Asset and Application Visibility - continuous, automated discovery across the estate, from a standing start Zero Trust / ZTNA rollout - identity-aware access across remote and internal services Automating identity lifecycle (JML) in Entra ID and key SaaS platforms Alongside that: SIEM engineering and detection tuning, vulnerability management, DLP, and incident response support - with a strong bias toward automation. What we''re looking for An IT infrastructure grounding - networking, endpoint, systems, identity - with a move into security. Infrastructure Engineer, Systems/IT Engineer, Cloud or Platform Engineer backgrounds all welcome Hands-on delivery of at least one of the three ..... full job details .....