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About the Role
This is a highly influential leadership role responsible for shaping the future of security engineering at Our Future Health, combining strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise. You will lead a team, oversee technologies and platforms, and drive the adoption of engineering best practices to ensure scalable, resilient, and integrated security solutions within a cloud-native environment. Your work will directly support the mission of improving health outcomes for millions of people.
Responsibilities
- Deputise for the Director of Information Security and help shape security strategy.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Security Engineering team.
- Manage team priorities, delivery, and day-to-day operations.
- Drive continuous improvement across processes, tooling, and documentation.
- Embed engineering best practices, including automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Champion an "everything-as-code" approach across security services.
- Remain hands-on with security engineering, automation, and solution design.
- Oversee the reliability and effectiveness of core security technologies.
- Build integrations between security tools, platforms, and workflows.
- Expand automation and self-service security capabilities.
- Partner with Security Operations, Product Security, Architecture, and Risk teams.
- Use threat intelligence, risk insights, and metrics to drive improvement.
- Define and track service performance metrics and KPIs.
- Advise on emerging technologies, security trends, and investment priorities.
- Maintain technical documentation and security platform standards.
- Support technology teams to adopt and integrate security services.
- Contribute to wider security initiatives, including ISO 27001 compliance.
Requirements
- Experience leading and developing high-performing security engineering teams.
- Proven hands-on security engineering background.
- Expertise securing cloud-native environments, ideally Azure.
- Experience building and operating security platforms and tooling.
- Excellent automation and engineering-first mindset.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and policy-as-code approaches.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, secure software development, and modern engineering practices.
- An understanding of IAM, cloud security, vulnerability management, and defensive controls.
- Experience using risk, intelligence, and operational metrics to prioritise improvements.
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with technical delivery.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in Agile, product-led environments.
- Passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing others.
- Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra, and Purview experience.
- Security architecture and secure-by-design expertise.
- Experience in highly regulated environments.
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code tooling.
- Building self-service security capabilities.
- Knowledge of ISO 27001 and security governance frameworks.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or Azure Security Engineer.
Skills
- Security Engineering
- Cloud-Native Security
- Azure
- Security Platforms
- Security Tooling
- Automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Policy as Code
- CI/CD
- Secure Software Development
- IAM
- Cloud Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Defensive Controls
- Risk Management
- Threat Intelligence
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Microsoft Defender
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Entra
- Microsoft Purview
- Security Architecture
- Secure-by-Design
- ISO 27001
- Terraform
- Self-Service Security Capabilities
Location
- Central London (Holborn)
- Remote
Work Type
- Flexible
- Remote
Experience Level
- Leadership
- Hands-on technical expertise
Education Level
- CISSP
- CCSP
- GIAC
- Azure Security Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- £105,000 per annum
Benefits
- Generous Pension Scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- 30 Days Holiday pro rata + Bank Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Home & Tech Savings
- EV Scheme
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus
- Wellbeing Support (Mental Health First Aiders, 24/7 online GP, Employee Assistance Programme)
About the Company
- Our Future Health's mission is to transform the prevention, detection, and treatment of conditions such as dementia, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
- We are looking for people to join us on our journey to help future generations live in good health for longer.
Equal Opportunity
- We recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process.
- We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
- If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at talent@ourfuturehealth.org.uk