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Position : Principal Platform Security Engineer, London Market
As a senior and influential member of the London Platform Engineering Chapter, the Principal Platform Security Engineer will set direction and lead by example in maturing our platform security practices. You will guide multiple Innovation squads and Engineering Chapters, driving cloud-first adoption and championing secure-by-design initiatives.
You will be an integral member of a Chapter spanning Platform, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineers, and a core contributor to a Platform Engineering squad focused on continuous improvement across our cloud and on-premises platforms. You will raise engineering standards through automation, reliable design, and pragmatic governance, helping to deliver smarter, more cost-effective, and faster solutions that are reusable across squads.
With security embedded across all squads, you will provide visible leadership to strengthen our platform security posture. You will influence priorities, drive the change needed to embed modern DevOps and security ways of working, and ensure teams have the patterns, tooling, and guidance to succeed.
As the chapter grows, this role also offers the opportunity to take on people leadership responsibilities, including day-to-day management of third-party security engineers and partner resources.
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Comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities, technology, and threats evolve.
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