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. 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. 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. 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.
