Forter Senior Security Engineer - Platform Engineering 

United Kingdom, England, London 

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You will have the task of improving the company’s security standing by developing security features and deploying security products in the company’s cloud tech stack (account management, network infrastructure, identity and access management, secret management, security monitoring and automation, and production machine access).

You will represent the Security Team as point of contact and source of knowledge in Design Review meetings across Engineering; perform threat analysis, define security controls and security KPIs for implementation, and track across the organization.

• Own and innovate the security strategy for Forter’s customer-facing APIs, ensuring high availability while mitigating evolving threats.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security best practices early, balancing protection with development velocity.
• Perform risk assessments and negotiate with other teams on where to invest effort.
• Design, build, promote, and maintain security infrastructure and tools used by all of Forter's engineering teams.
• Mentor and build relationships with “Security Champions” in Engineering to design and build secure applications

• 5-6+ years of experience in the relevant fields:
• 3+ years working with high-availability production systems in public cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• 3+ years experience in a security-focused role
• Programming and infrastructure-as-code experience (Python, NodeJS, Go, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
• Deep understanding of security across every layer of the stack (OS, Network, Application, Database, Storage, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to drive cross-team security initiatives

• Experience with threat modeling, security audits, penetration testing, or SAST tools
• Contributions to security research, blogs, talks, or open-source security projects

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Quarterly company bonus
• Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
• Restricted Stock Units (RSU’s)
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays, every Friday
• Work from home allowance
• Pension plan with an option for salary sacrifice

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• in NYC (2022)
• #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)