Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, globally recognised for its authority, integrity and accuracy, with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide. At the FT, curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here, you’re given the chance to reach millions, create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world. In our warm, collaborative culture, you’ll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth, career aspirations and wellbeing. Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path, you’ll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.

We’re looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to help improve application security across the FT’s cloud-native technology estate. This is a hands-on role focused on making secure engineering easier for product, platform and software engineering teams. Application security experience is essential for this role.

You’ll help improve developer-friendly security guardrails across GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines, application repositories and engineering workflows. This includes working with SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, vulnerability management and secure coding guidance so that security findings are clear, actionable and owned by the right teams.

You’ll work closely with engineers to support practical threat modelling, triage application vulnerabilities, improve security playbooks and help teams remediate issues in a pragmatic way. You do not need to be a deep AWS or cloud security specialist, but some exposure to AWS, cloud security or infrastructure-as-code security would be useful.

We’re looking for someone with practical AppSec experience who wants to grow their impact - someone who enjoys working with engineers, improving tooling and helping security become part of normal delivery rather than a last-minute checkpoint.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard, respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.

Working Model
We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time, subject to role requirements and regular review. While flexible working requests will be considered, not all patterns are suitable for all roles. This balanced approach supports flexibility and protects our culture, making collaboration and communication easier, building stronger relationships and team cohesion, and supporting peer learning.

Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Reasonable adjustments can be made to support candidates throughout the application process and interviews.

Experience
- Practical experience in application security, identifying and remediating security risks in modern engineering environments.
- Experience working with software engineers to explain and remediate security issues.
- Familiarity with common web application security risks and secure coding practices.
- Experience with vulnerability triage, prioritisation and remediation tracking.
- Experience using or interpreting findings from tools such as SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning or similar.
- Experience participating in or supporting threat modelling activities.
- Ability to write scripts or small tools, ideally in Python, to automate tasks or improve visibility.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum ways of working.

About you
- Developer-friendly security mindset: you enjoy working with engineers, explaining risks clearly and helping teams adopt secure practices without unnecessary friction.
- Automation mindset: ability to reduce manual effort and improve security workflows.
- Growth mindset: willingness to keep developing across application security, cloud security, secure development and modern engineering practices.
- Collaborative and pragmatic approach to security integration in delivery pipelines.

Qualifications
- Exposure to AWS security, cloud security or infrastructure-as-code security is desirable but not essential.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, container or Kubernetes security is a plus.
- Experience with bug bounty, penetration testing or security testing programmes is advantageous.
- Experience with Splunk or similar logging/SIEM platforms is beneficial.
- Exposure to AI security, such as LLM-enabled applications, AI-assisted development workflows or prompt/data leakage risks is a plus.
- Experience building dashboards, metrics or reports to support vulnerability management.
- Relevant security certifications or training, such as AWS security training, secure coding training, GIAC, ISC2, CREST or equivalent practical experience, are desirable.