Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

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. Build a newsworthy career at the FT.

We're looking for a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to help mature application and cloud security across the FT's cloud-native, AWS-hosted technology estate. This role has an approximate 50/50 focus across application security and cloud security, working closely with product, platform and engineering teams to make secure delivery easier by default. You'll shape and improve developer-friendly guardrails across GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines, AWS environments and infrastructure-as-code workflows. This includes improving SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, IaC scanning, vulnerability management and AWS misconfiguration management so that findings are actionable, low-noise and owned by the right teams.

Day to day, you'll run practical threat-modelling sessions, review application and cloud designs, improve security playbooks, support vulnerability and misconfiguration remediation, and build automation that reduces toil. We're looking for someone who has demonstrably improved security outcomes in real engineering environments, not just someone with theoretical knowledge of tools or frameworks. Depending on team structure, you may also mentor or line-manage one or two security engineers, while remaining hands-on and close to the technical work.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion means we value unique perspectives and strive to create a supportive workplace where all employees can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are dedicated to removing barriers for everyone, with a focus on underrepresented groups.

We currently operate a hybrid working model requiring staff to work onsite 50% of the time, subject to role requirements and regular review. Flexible working requests will be considered where suitable.

Experience
- Strong practical experience in application security and cloud security, ideally with a balanced focus across both.
- Hands-on AWS security experience, including common misconfiguration patterns and practical remediation approaches.
- Experience improving vulnerability management across engineering teams, including prioritisation, ownership, remediation tracking and noise reduction.
- Experience in improving cloud or infrastructure-as-code misconfiguration management at scale in a developer-friendly way.
- Experience integrating, tuning or improving security tooling in CI/CD workflows, such as SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning or IaC scanning.
- Experience running practical threat-modelling sessions that influence design, delivery or remediation decisions.
- Ability to write scripts or small tools, ideally in Python, to automate security workflows or improve visibility.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence engineers and technical leaders without relying on gatekeeping.
- Evidence of improving application security, cloud security or vulnerability management practices in a real engineering environment.
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum ways of working.

About you
- Developer-friendly security mindset: you know how to work with engineers, explain risk clearly and design controls that help teams move securely without unnecessary friction.
- Automation mindset: you enjoy building tools and automation to reduce toil and improve security visibility.
- Security leadership: ability to mentor other security engineers and influence engineers across the wider organisation. Depending on team structure, this may include line management.
- Collaborative and proactive with a passion for continuous improvement and innovation in security practices.

Qualifications
- While formal certifications are not mandatory, desirable qualifications include AWS Certified Security - Specialty or equivalent practical AWS security experience.
- Experience or knowledge of Terraform or CloudFormation is advantageous.
- Incident-management or incident-response experience is beneficial.
- Familiarity with Splunk or similar logging/SIEM platforms is a plus.
- Experience with security metrics, dashboards or reporting that helped drive measurable risk reduction is desirable.
- Experience mentoring or line-managing security engineers is a plus.
- Awareness or experience leveraging AI to improve and scale application and cloud security controls is useful but not essential.