Developer Experience Security Engineer (AWS)

Location: London, UK; hybrid with 2 days per week in the London office

Company

hirify.global is a UK online car-selling platform connecting private sellers with more than 8,000 dealers.

What you will do

• Design and maintain secure-by-default platform capabilities, including IAM patterns, network primitives, secrets management, runtime protections, and encryption.
• Build automated security checks, guardrails, and visibility to continuously assess risk and reduce manual audits.
• Embed secure software development practices into CI/CD pipelines, templates, and shared tooling.
• Automate repetitive work for the technology and Security Operations teams through scripting, workflows, and tooling.
• Standardize security telemetry, logging, monitoring, SIEM detections, alerts, and signals across the platform.
• Support security incident response as part of a virtual SOC and enable secure engineering through documentation, examples, platform defaults, and training.

Requirements

• Experience as a Platform Engineer, Developer Experience Engineer, or in a similar role enabling other engineers.
• Experience with containers, serverless technologies, and infrastructure as code.
• Good knowledge of AWS cloud security best practices and tooling.
• Technical knowledge of security for networks, systems, web applications, APIs, and databases.
• Understanding of secure software development practices and familiarity with SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF, and vulnerability scanners.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK tactics, techniques, procedures, and relevant security standards is beneficial.

Nice to have

• Security certifications such as GCLD, Security+, or AWS/GCP Security Certifications.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or AWS FSBP.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity scheme.
• 25 days of holiday and flexible working within the hybrid arrangement.
• Private medical insurance via BUPA, life assurance, and a pension scheme with a 5% company contribution.
• Enhanced family leave, including up to 26 weeks of full pay for maternity or adoption.
• Employee Assistance Programme, EV leasing, cycle-to-work, and nursery salary sacrifice schemes.
• One paid volunteering day per year.