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Senior Security Engineer

Copello
Edinburgh
money-bag £70000 - £95000/annum +Bonus + Car Allowance
Posted: 26 August 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 25 September 2026
Ref: 225535714

Senior Software Cybersecurity Engineer - Edinburgh (Hybrid)

Are you a-Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with strong AppSec, DevSecOps, Cloud and Kubernetes experience?

I''m currently working on an exciting opportunity, supporting the Avigilon security team in protecting the software, cloud platforms and intellectual property behind their physical and video security solutions.

This is a hands-on role where you''ll work closely with software engineering teams to-identify vulnerabilities, improve security throughout the SDLC and build secure-by-design solutions.

What you''ll be doing

  • Conduct-threat modelling, risk assessments and security architecture reviews
  • Assess security across-cloud and Kubernetes/container environments
  • Embed-SAST, DAST, SCA, SBOM and secret scanning-into CI/CD pipelines
  • Perform-security code reviews-and provide secure coding guidance
  • Define security requirements and support engineering teams with secure-by-design practices
  • Drive-vulnerability management, particularly across Kubernetes and container images
  • Triage and validate vulnerabilities, including developing PoCs where appropriate
  • Manage-IAM and key management controls
  • Support product security incident response, root-cause analysis and remediation
  • Develop detection engineering capabilities, IDS/IPS rules and technical runbooks
  • Monitor emerging threats and continuously improve security controls
  • Work across engineering, security and compliance teams to drive security improvements

You''ll ideally have:

  • 7+ years'' experience-in Cybersecurity, Application Security or Security Engineering
  • Strong-AppSec / DevSecOps-experience
  • Hands-on experience with-AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Strong-Kubernetes and Docker/container security-knowledge
  • Experience integrating-SAST, DAST, SCA and security tooling into CI/CD
  • Strong understanding of-threat modelling, IAM, cryptography and application security
  • Experience with-Go and/or C# development
  • Knowledge of-HTTP, REST, TLS and TCP/IP
  • Strong understanding of-OWASP, NIST, ISO 27001 and CIS
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with developers and technical stakeholders

Desirable

Experience with:

  • Vulnerability research / exploit development
  • Manual penetration testing
  • Cloud, web, embedded or mobile security
  • Splunk / OSQuery
  • AI/ML security
  • Distributed systems
  • AWS Security Specialty, OSCP, CISSP, CCSP, CCAK or SANS/GIAC certifications

Why consider it?

You''ll join a global technology organisation developing mission-critical security and video technologies used to help protect people, property and communities worldwide.

You''ll have the opportunity to work at the intersection of:

Application Security | Cloud Security | Kubernetes | DevSecOps | Vulnerability Research | Product Security with strong career development, flexible working and an excellent benefits package.

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