Senior Cyber Security Engineer (AWS)

Location: London or Sofia. Hybrid work requires onsite attendance 50% of the time.

Company

hirify.global is a globally recognised news organisation delivering quality information and services worldwide.

What you will do

• Improve application security guardrails across SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, and related CI/CD controls.
• Reduce AWS and infrastructure-as-code vulnerabilities and misconfigurations through pragmatic tooling and remediation workflows.
• Drive vulnerability and cloud misconfiguration management, including prioritisation, ownership, tracking, and remediation.
• Run practical threat-modelling sessions and provide application and cloud security input during architecture and design reviews.
• Build scripts, integrations, dashboards, and workflows that reduce manual effort and improve risk visibility.
• Partner with product, platform, and engineering teams, support incident response and lessons learned, and mentor security engineers.

Requirements

• Strong practical experience in both application security and cloud security, ideally in AWS-hosted cloud-native environments.
• Hands-on AWS security experience, including misconfiguration identification and remediation at scale.
• Experience improving vulnerability management and integrating or tuning SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, or IaC scanning in CI/CD workflows.
• Experience running threat-modelling sessions that influence design, delivery, or remediation decisions.
• Ability to write scripts or small tools, ideally in Python, to automate security workflows and improve visibility.
• Strong communication, collaboration, mentoring, and engineering-influence skills, plus familiarity with Agile or Scrum.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI for application and cloud security.
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty or equivalent practical experience.
• Terraform or CloudFormation expertise.
• Incident management or response experience, and familiarity with Splunk or similar SIEM platforms.
• Experience with security metrics, dashboards, reporting, mentoring, or line management.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous annual leave and medical cover, varying by location.
• Inclusive parental leave packages and subsidised gym memberships.
• Opportunities to give back to the community.
• Collaborative workplace focused on inclusion, wellbeing, learning, and career development.
• Hybrid working model designed to support flexibility, collaboration, communication, and peer learning.