Lead Information Security Engineer – Careers At Mott Macdonald Peterborough

Overview

Position Title: Lead Information Security Engineer

Company: Mott MacDonald

Location: Peterborough, UK

Job Description

Our dynamic and diverse team ranges from information consultants, investment analysts through to product managers, software developers, data scientists and everything in between. At Digital Ventures we’re not short on ambition, and we want our people to have genuinely exciting and fulfilling careers full of equal opportunities for growth, with a real sense of purpose through meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Lead our security working group and advocate security and secure practices through the Moata platform team
• Perform technical security assessments, high level design reviews and vulnerability testing to highlight risk, helping Moata product teams to improve security.
• Work closely with our principal engineers to design and build proactive methods to mitigate security vulnerabilities
• Support automation of security verification and testing practices for all applications.
• Identify metrics and measure the effectiveness of the overall security program to support compliance and regulatory accreditations such as ISO 27001 and 27034.

Requirements:

• Strong written and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort communicating security risk with executives, product managers, domain experts and software engineers.
• Solid knowledge in infrastructure and cloud computing technologies
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies
• Excellent analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Good knowledge of various aspects of an enterprise technology architecture like business, information, data, network, and security
• Knowledge of backend and frontend development languages such as SQL, C#, Python, JavaScript (TypeScript, ES6+) and MVVM like frameworks such as React + Redux
• Knowledge of information principles and processes
• Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.