Managing Security Engineer (Hybrid)

The Opportunity

Our client is seeking an experienced Managing Security Engineer to lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, building, and operating security controls as scalable software products. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines technical expertise, people management, and delivery ownership within a modern, cloud-first engineering environment.

You will play a key role in embedding secure-by-default practices across enterprise platforms and software delivery pipelines, ensuring security capabilities are integrated seamlessly into the development lifecycle while maintaining an excellent developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of engineers, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Define and drive the technical direction of the team, ensuring high-quality delivery across design, development, deployment, and production support.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, contributing to architecture reviews, technical decision-making, code reviews, and critical implementations where required.
• Own operational outcomes for security products, focusing on reliability, performance, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, platform teams, and engineering stakeholders to align priorities, roadmaps, and delivery objectives.
• Foster a strong engineering culture centred around modern development practices, fast feedback loops, and continuous learning.
• Translate complex security requirements into scalable engineering solutions and reusable platform capabilities.
• Support agile delivery processes while maintaining a strong focus on business and engineering outcomes.

Essential Requirements

• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Minimum 5 years' professional software engineering experience, including hands-on development using modern programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Proven experience owning and supporting production systems delivering measurable reliability, security, or performance outcomes.
• At least 2 years' experience providing technical leadership to engineering teams through architecture reviews, design guidance, and code reviews.
• Strong background in designing and operating scalable distributed systems within cloud environments.
• Experience working with microservices architectures, APIs, and backend services.
• Practical experience applying modern engineering practices including CI/CD, test-driven development, pair programming, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience working in agile environments and partnering closely with product and engineering stakeholders.

Desirable Experience

• Strong background in security engineering, application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, or secure software development practices.
• Experience designing and operating security controls within CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, or shared platform services.
• Ability to influence technical strategy and drive adoption of secure engineering standards across multiple teams.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.
• Exposure to cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, and/or Azure.
• Familiarity with security metrics and operational indicators used to measure adoption, reliability, and risk reduction.
• Ability to balance security requirements, engineering delivery, and developer experience effectively.

Leadership Responsibilities

This position includes line management responsibilities and serves as the first-level manager for a team of engineers.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Annual bonus scheme
• Pension contribution
• Annual salary review process
• Life assurance and income protection
• Private medical and dental cover
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Paid volunteering days
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Ongoing professional development, certifications, and career progression opportunities

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Senior Recruitment Consultant Stuart Kennedy at MCS Group on 02896935520 or s.kennedy@mcsgroup.jobs.

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