Ebury - Senior Security Engineering Manager
Requirements
• Technical Leadership & Hands-on Depth • 8+ years of total experience across software engineering, platform engineering, or security engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineering teams. • 8+ years • 3+ years • Former software engineer or technical security specialist who transitioned into engineering management while retaining deep technical fluency. • Proven track record designing, building, and running security controls at scale across public clouds (AWS and/or GCP) and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes). • Kubernetes • Hands-on mastery of secure coding practices, modern DevSecOps integration, threat modelling, and federated identity protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML). • Execution & Stakeholder Management • Proven ability to translate high-level business risk into prioritised, actionable engineering backlogs. • Strong track record delivering multi-quarter technical initiatives from inception to measurable completion. • Data-driven decision-maker comfortable defending technical positions to executives and engineers alike. • Pragmatic delivery mindset: balancing ironclad security controls with engineering velocity. • Professional experience within regulated financial services, fintech, or payment processing environments. • Practical understanding of security frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks). • Exceptional written and verbal communication in English, with the clarity to articulate nuanced risk concepts to cross-functional teams. • Demonstrated success leading remote or distributed teams across multiple geographies. • Experience dual-running or migrating workloads across both AWS and GCP. • Hands-on experience operationalising LLM/AI security models or agentic automation in software engineering. • Industry certifications reflecting broad architecture and offensive depth (e.g., CISSP, CISM, OSCP, or hyperscaler Security Specialties). • Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally. • Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 2000+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team. • At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage. • The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars. • We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story. • Important Security Notice for Job Applicants:Ebury only accepts applications via official Ebury channels. We will only contact you from an @ebury.com domain. Always check the emails you receive from us, and note that we will never request payment for any part of the recruitment process. Stay safe and report suspicious activity.Notice to Recruitment Agencies and Search Firms:Ebury does not accept unsolicited resumes, CVs, or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies or search firms without signed written Ebury recruitment terms in place for a specific role. Any unsolicited applications will be considered the sole property of Ebury. Ebury will not be responsible or liable for any placement fees or costs associated with unagreed candidate submissions or subsequent hires.AI Transparency Statement:Ebury uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated tools to help streamline certain parts of our recruitment process, however, these tools are strictly for administrative efficiency. All hiring decisions, including application reviews, shortlisting, and final selections are evaluated and conducted by human talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers. • Important Security Notice for Job Applicants: • @ebury.com • never • Notice to Recruitment Agencies and Search Firms: • AI Transparency Statement:
Responsibilities
• Leadership & Security Architecture • Team Leadership: Manage, recruit, and mentor a global team of security engineers, fostering technical excellence and clear career progression paths. • Team Leadership: • Architecture Design: Define and implement high-level security architecture across existing systems and greenfield projects. • Architecture Design: • Engineering Alignment: Partner with Software Engineering and Platform leadership to embed security requirements into roadmaps and sprint cycles. • Engineering Alignment: • Technical Rigour: Stay actively hands-on—conduct architecture design reviews, review critical code, and act as the final decision-maker on complex technical security trade-offs. • Technical Rigour: • Executive Reporting: Deliver measurable, data-backed metrics and reporting on technical security posture to executive stakeholders. • Executive Reporting: • Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) & AI Workflows • Strategy & Tooling: Define and scale the SSDLC strategy, integrating automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA) seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines. • Strategy & Tooling: • Threat Modelling: Institutionalise continuous threat modelling across product teams. • Threat Modelling: • Agentic Workflows: Design and evolve guardrails and secure frameworks tailored for modern agentic software development and AI-assisted workflows. • Agentic Workflows: • Vulnerability Management & Red Teaming • Programme Ownership: Direct the end-to-end vulnerability management programme, including continuous discovery, context-aware triage, remediation SLAs, and board-level risk reporting. • Programme Ownership: • Remediation Drive: Partner with engineering managers to resolve systemic and critical vulnerabilities, unblocking blockers and escalating when timelines slip. • Remediation Drive: • Next-Gen Tooling: Direct AI-assisted tooling strategies, including continuous scanning pipelines and internal automated red-teaming platforms. • Next-Gen Tooling: • Identity & Access Management (IAM) • IAM Architecture: Direct identity and access management architecture across multi-cloud infrastructure and customer-facing microservices. • IAM Architecture: • Privileged Access: Ensure authentication, authorisation, least privilege, and Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls strictly satisfy compliance and internal audit benchmarks. • Privileged Access: • Cloud & Network Security Posture • Platform Partnership: Collaborate closely with Platform Engineering to define security guardrails on AWS and GCP (network segmentation, perimeter defence, container runtime security). • Platform Partnership: • Change Governance: Review and sign off on high-risk architectural changes across platform and cloud network boundaries. • Change Governance: • Audit & Technical Assurance: Support technical external audits and close compliance gaps (ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA) through direct engineering implementations rather than paperwork. • Audit & Technical Assurance:
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