Security Engineering Team Lead

ESO; Belfast; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Belfast is looking for a Security Engineer Engineering Team Leader to enhance the security of mission-critical applications. You will lead a team and work across multiple regions, mitigating vulnerabilities and guiding security best practices. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in cloud security and a solid understanding of application security standards. Join us in making a difference in community health and safety.

Benefits

Life insurance (4 x base salary)

Income protection insurance

Generous pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Flexible hybrid working policy

Enhanced parental leave policies

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in software or infrastructure security in cloud environments.
• Experience with security tools for networks, hosts, and web applications.
• Solid understanding of application security standards like OWASP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team of Security Engineers in security consulting.
• Work with Product & Technology teams to secure applications.
• Mitigate vulnerabilities across our systems and assist developers.

Skills

5 years experience in cloud security

Networking knowledge

Experience with security toolsets

Understanding of attack tactics

Knowledge of Continuous Integration practices

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Vulnerability management tools

Job description

How You'll Support Our Mission

ESO’s teams are growing, and our software is in demand globally by firefighters, paramedics, hospitals and governments. To meet this demand, we are building an industry‑leading cyber security team in Belfast to protect our customers and data from a variety of fast moving and constantly evolving threats.

We are looking for a Security Engineer Engineering Team Leader to join our Belfast team, working alongside teams in Copenhagen, Czechia and the United States. Work alongside our fire, hospital and EMS Engineering teams to secure our mission‑critical applications. These applications are used to help our customers go about their daily job of protecting their communities and saving lives.

What You'll Be Doing – the day to day

• Lead our team of Security Engineers – assisting with decision making and solution analysis, and enabling them to deliver security consulting to the wider business.
• Work directly with, and provide escalated support and guidance to, our Product & Technology teams to assist in how our platform is built and how our applications behave; supporting everything from the security of our users inside our products to how our applications connect to the Internet.
• Have significant impact on the security of our systems that are used by thousands of firefighters, paramedics and hospitals worldwide.
• Be a key part of our cyber security team, with demonstrable impact on the security of our systems and applications.
• Help our teams to model threats using the STRIDE model, against new designs, ensuring appropriate protection and controls are in place.
• Make a difference by mitigating vulnerabilities across our systems, helping developers to produce secure code and evaluating new next‑gen security technologies.
• Respond to security and compliance issues generated via analysis or automated tools.
• Work collaboratively cross‑team, to impart your expertise across the organization.
• Be in the detail, working shoulder‑to‑shoulder with our technology teams.

Who You Are – some of the essential things required to be successful in the role

• At least 5 years’ experience in securing software or infrastructure in cloud platforms (e.g. Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Your experience should include;
• Securing systems in line with ‘Well Architected Frameworks’ e.g. Azure Well Architected Framework.
• Network experience – whether designing and building, managing or troubleshooting – you should have experience and confidence in your networking knowledge.
• Applying security to networks, hosts, web applications and cloud native deployments.
• Working with toolsets from one or more of: asset management, vulnerability management, firewalls, SIEM, PAM, IDS/IPS, EDR/XDR, DLP, SWG, WAF, CSPM, CNAPP.
• A solid understanding and ideally experience in the design, implementation or run of one or more of: SAST/DAST/IAST/RASP.

You should also:

• Having knowledge of Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment best practices, and securing pipelines.
• Understand current attack tactics, techniques and procedures along with the use of MITRE Attack framework and associated MITRE security research.
• Be inquisitive, have a passion for what you do and understanding how your work impacts and contributes ESO’s success.

Who You Are – it’s desirable if you have any of the following

• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code and Azure native technologies.
• Experience with threat modelling, NIST and CIS frameworks.
• Knowledge of application security standards such as OWASP Top 10, SANS / CWE 25.

Benefits & Perks!

You will have fantastic benefits at ESO including but not limited to:

• Life insurance (4 x base salary).
• Income protection insurance.
• A generous pension contribution.
• Private medical insurance including optical and dental.
• A health cash plan.
• Modern City Centre office and a flexible hybrid working policy.
• AwardCo Recognition Program.
• Enhanced paternity leave and pay, enhanced adoptive pay, enhanced maternity pay - 12 weeks full pay after 6 months' service.
• Enhanced short and long‑term sick pay.
• 25 days holiday which increases year on year until you reach 5 years of service + 14 additional days.

About ESO

ESO is a fast‑paced, growing data, technology and research company passionate about improving community health and safety through the power of data. We pioneer innovative, user‑friendly software to meet the changing needs of today’s EMS agencies, fire departments, and hospitals. We serve thousands of customers out of our offices across the US, Canada and Northern Ireland.

Are you ready to Make a Difference?

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