Made Tech helps UK government and public sector organisations build better digital services and security is central to that mission. As a Lead Security Engineer in our Cyber practice youll be the most senior security engineering voice on client engagements setting technical direction for how organisations design build and defend secure systems. Youll work across complex government programmes where the stakes are real: services that affect citizens systems that hold sensitive data and teams that need to move quickly without cutting corners.
This isnt a role where you sit at the edge of delivery reviewing outputs. Youll be embedded in multidisciplinary teams shaping how security is engineered into everyday work from threat modelling and architecture at design time to hardened monitored systems in production. Youll build trusted relationships with client engineering leads platform teams and senior stakeholders translating between deep technical decisions and the trade-offs senior leaders need to understand. Youll bring the judgement to know when a heavyweight security architecture is warranted and when a lighter-weight faster-moving approach serves the engagement better.
At Lead level your impact extends beyond the immediate team. Youll establish security engineering standards and reference architectures across engagements grow the technical capability of the people around you colleagues and client engineers alike and contribute to how Made Techs Cyber practice develops as a community. If youd rather build the paved road than police the off-road who treat security as an engineering discipline rather than a compliance exercise and who cares about leaving client teams genuinely stronger than you found them this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical security architecture across engagements. Design secure-by-default reference architectures set patterns for identity network and data protection and maintain living technical standards feeding directly into how teams build not just how theyre audited.
- Lead vulnerability remediation as an engineering programme. Define the prioritisation framework drawing on EPSS KEV CVSS and asset criticality set remediation SLAs own the risk-acceptance register and drive fixes directly into delivery backlogs alongside product teams. Report programme KPIs (MTTR by severity backlog age coverage recurrence rate) to senior stakeholders.
- Drive security into the teams normal engineering rhythm. Embed threat modelling secure code review SAST SCA dependency policy and container scanning into design and delivery cycles building the tooling and automation that make this the default not a specialist handover at the end of a sprint.
- Navigate UK government security standards with confidence as an engineer not a paperwork exercise. Design systems and controls that satisfy the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework GovAssure Cyber Essentials and HMG Security Policy Framework applying them proportionately across engagements as guardrails that enable safe delivery not barriers to it. Engage with government security communities and coordinate with departmental technical teams.
- Communicate security risk in terms that drive engineering decisions. Report system posture remediation programme performance and architectural risk to senior client stakeholders tailoring the frame for the audience and structuring reports around the decisions the reader needs to make not just the findings.
- Set the standard for incident response and detection engineering. Build and drive adoption of detection alerting and IR tooling across engagements own the IR-to-vulnerability-management feedback loop and coordinate cross-team exercises including known-exploited-vulnerability scramble drills.
- Grow the people around you. Mentor colleagues across the practice and at client organisations pair on complex or unfamiliar engineering problems and create structured development opportunities including for client engineers who may not yet have strong security habits.
- Contribute to Made Techs Cyber practice beyond delivery. Shape practice standards contribute to hiring and technical calibration build and share expertise externally and help grow a security engineering community that raises capability across the organisation.
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
Essential- Deep hands-on experience designing and building secure cloud architectures (AWS Azure or GCP) at scale including IAM network segmentation and data protection patterns.
- Proven track record embedding security tooling and automation into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows across multiple teams.
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language used to build production-grade security tooling (not just scripts).
DesirableThe following would strengthen your application. We dont expect every candidate to bring all of these.
Certifications- OSCP OSWE or equivalent offensive security credential
- AWS/Azure/GCP security specialty certification
- CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
Capabilities and experience- Experience establishing and operating vulnerability remediation programmes at organisational scale including risk-based prioritisation using EPSS KEV and asset criticality and driving fixes across multiple delivery teams.
- Evidence of designing systems that satisfy UK government security frameworks GovAssure CAF Cyber Essentials HMG Security Policy Framework in a complex multi-supplier or multi-team environment as an architect rather than an assessor.
- Experience conducting or coordinating technical security reviews and penetration testing in UK public sector contexts including remediating findings and briefing senior technical stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of exposure management beyond CVE-only approaches incorporating misconfiguration identity exposure and attack-path analysis using cloud-native tooling (AWS Inspector GuardDuty Security Hub or equivalents).
- Experience securing software supply chains SBOM generation dependency provenance artifact signing and integrating this into build pipelines rather than a standalone assurance process.
- Experience building or shaping security engineering capability within a consultancy programme delivery or multi-client environment including growing technical skills in colleagues and client teams.
- Evidence of acting as a trusted technical adviser to senior client stakeholders anchoring recommendations on engineering outcomes challenging briefs constructively and making security value visible through what gets shipped.
- Experience setting team ways of working in iterative delivery environments establishing retrospective cadences collaborative problem-solving norms and pairing practices that spread security knowledge across the team.
Tooling and practice familiarity- Deep familiarity with structured threat modelling approaches STRIDE MITRE ATT&CK attack trees and experience embedding these into agile delivery ceremonies.
- Experience integrating SAST SCA dependency scanning and container security tooling into CI/CD pipelines as part of a shift-left security approach including building custom tooling where off-the-shelf doesnt fit.
Made Tech sponsors attainment of recognised cyber certifications for staff in scope. If you dont yet hold the listed credentials but are actively working toward them or can demonstrate equivalent capability through your experience wed still welcome your application.
Job Benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. Weve recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme Cycle to work scheme and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. Were also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:
30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leaveFlexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you workFlexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave optionsRemote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staffPaid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice
At this point we hope youre feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Get in touch with our talent team if youd like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies.
SC Eligibility An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result were looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years UK residency and 5 year employment history (or back to full-time education). Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC we wont be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.
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.We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. Were collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy healthy safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.
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Working hours: Our standard hours are Monday to Friday but the nature of this role means some work outside normal hours may be required for example during release and change windows planned maintenance or to align with client operating hours. This is occasional rather than routine and well always give as much notice as we can and agree it with you in advance wherever possible.Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 75000 - 90000
