Senior Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Bristol, London, or Edinburgh, UK. Existing right to work in the UK is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Company

hirify.global provides an energy intelligence platform that coordinates real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets, and grids to support clean electrification.

What you will do

• Integrate security platforms and tooling, including AI-enabled capabilities for threat prevention, detection, and response.
• Partner with Platform Engineering and IAM teams to embed Zero Trust architecture and privileged access management controls.
• Advise product and engineering teams on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating systemic risks and vulnerabilities.
• Define and evolve security best practices, supporting adoption through expert guidance and automation.
• Embed security tooling into release engineering and CI/CD processes to detect and prevent vulnerabilities early.
• Work across infrastructure, release engineering, and security detection using AWS, Cloudflare, Okta, Datadog, CrowdStrike, and Kubernetes.

Requirements

• Knowledge of AWS and/or GCP security best practices.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
• Experience managing web application firewalls, such as Cloudflare.
• Awareness of common software security flaws and web application security best practices, including OWASP Top 10 and CWE/SANS Top 25.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps principles and their security considerations.
• Experience applying AI to personal work and/or enabling others to use AI.
• Working knowledge of Okta or an equivalent workforce identity platform for enforcing access management policies.
• Some scripting experience with Python or Go, plus experience consulting with engineering teams through technical design reviews and threat modelling.
• Ability to identify requirements gaps, contribute to planning, and make technical decisions that account for cost, industry standards, and organisational context.
• Experience coaching or mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, resolving problems strategically, and balancing strategic delivery with maintenance, innovation, and tactical support.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment in a collaborative security engineering team working with platform, IAM, software, release engineering, and security operations teams.
• 26 days of annual leave and 26 weeks of full pay for new parents without a qualifying service period.
• Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, mortgage advice, and eye tests.
• Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund worth 5% of salary, and retail discounts.
• Personal learning budget, home office budget, and access to the Furthr climate action app.