About this role
Our client is a financial trading technology company that enables seamless connectivity across digital asset exchanges and on-chain protocols, offering a detailed real-time view of all your exposures and risks.
They are looking to hire a Senior Security Engineer to support their clients. The role will be to lead and execute the company’s security program, ensuring SOC 2 compliance, managing security tools, and actively defending against threats. You’ll be both strategist and operator building policy, hardening systems, and responding to incidents.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the SOC 2 Type I/II program: policy creation, control mapping, audit readiness.
- Harden and monitor Atlassian Cloud, Azure, OVH bare-metal Rocky Linux servers
(CIS L1 baseline).
- Configure and tune
- Implement secure SDLC practices with GitHub, Snyk, OWASP SecureCodeBox + DefectDojo.
- Oversee access reviews, vulnerability management, incident response, and forensics.
- Conduct regular risk assessments, access reviews and tabletop exercises.
- Partner with Platform Engineering to embed security in infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
Skills
Educated to degree level
- 1+ years in security engineering/management in a hybrid/mixed cloud environment.
- Strong knowledge of SOC 2 controls and evidence collection.
- Expertise in Azure security services, SIEMs, M365 security stack.
- Hands-on experience with Linux hardening (CIS benchmarks), Ansible, Terraform.
- Familiarity with secure coding practices, SAST/DAST tools, and threat modelling.
- Ability to balance start-up pragmatism with compliance rigor.
Further information
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge financial and trading technologies.
- Collaborative and innovative team culture.
- Working for a well-established, rapidly growing organisation.
A unique opportunity to join one of the leading teams in the blockchain
industry working on greenfield products.
- Work with some of the most accomplished traders and engineers
spanning both technology and finance.
- Opportunities to attend industry events and a dedicated learning
budget to expand your skillset.
- Modern locations with high spec development machines.
Excellent global opportunities working with an exceptional team on complex interesting projects. We value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
About cyber security & digital forensics roles for ex-police
Cyber security, digital forensics and incident-response roles. DMIs, cybercrime investigators and digital forensics officers bring evidential discipline and investigative judgement that DFIR and security teams struggle to hire.
See all cyber security & digital forensics jobs in London →Why this fits a police background
- Incident command & response
- Risk & threat assessment
- Working to legislation & regulation
What cyber security & digital forensics roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Digital forensics analyst | £32,000–£45,000 |
| DFIR consultant | £45,000–£65,000 |
| Senior forensics / IR specialist | £60,000–£80,000 |
| Threat-intelligence specialist | £55,000–£80,000 |