Security Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Security Engineer (Cybersecurity): Strengthening the organizational cybersecurity function, defining, embedding, and assuring security standards, guardrails, and risk management practices. Focus on aligning controls to recognized frameworks, collaborating with engineering and business teams, and evolving security maturity.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in Richmond, UK. You can work from abroad 2 weeks every 6 months.

Company

hirify.global is a B Corp dog food subscription company that creates tailored food for each dog, backed by Purina, one of the world’s largest pet food companies.

What you will do

• Define and maintain security standards, guardrails, and controls across the organization, ensuring they are pragmatic and consistently applied.
• Align security controls to recognized frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, data, and business teams to embed security requirements and provide practical guidance.
• Collaborate with the Nestlé Cyber team, leveraging their intelligence, tooling, and insights.
• Lead assurance activities, support audits, and conduct risk assessments, tracking remediation to closure.
• Drive measurable improvements through maturity tracking, and monitor emerging threats and technologies.

Requirements

• Experience in cyber security, security engineering, or security governance roles.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.
• Understanding of secure design, cloud security, and infrastructure security patterns.
• Experience defining, assessing, or assuring security controls and standards.
• Familiarity with SOC operations, threat intelligence, and incident response.
• Ability to translate technical risk into clear, actionable requirements and possess strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Relevant certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive annual salary and bonus based on company performance.
• Flexible core hours, supporting work-life balance.
• 25 days of holiday (excluding bank holidays), increasing to 27 days over time.
• 9/10 day working week to enhance wellbeing without reduction in pay.
• Optional 5 days unpaid leave and 1 paid volunteer day each year.
• Health insurance for you, paid by hirify.global.
• Extended maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay (6 months at 70% pay).
• Access to an in-house L&D team with year-round courses.
• 50% discount on all hirify.global products and discounted gym membership.

Hiring process

• CV review by the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Call with the TA Team to discuss the role and your experience.
• Video call with the hiring manager.
• Task presentation to a panel of interviewers.