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🛠 Role - Application Security Engineer (12-month FTC)

Head Resourcing are delighted to be partnered with a UK financial services client who are looking to hire an Application Security Engineer to join them on their exciting journey.

This role will play a key part in embedding security into their software development lifecycle and cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams to ensure applications and infrastructure are secure by design, and that vulnerabilities are identified and addressed proactively.

This is a hands-on technical role with a strong focus on collaboration, enablement, and continuous improvement across our security tooling and practices.

Skills & experience required to be successful:

Proven experience in application or cloud security engineering roles
Relevant certifications such as OSCP or similar
Strong understand of secure software development practices
Hands on experience of SAST/SCA/Vulnerability Management tools
Strong understanding and familiarity of Cloud platformsIf this sounds of interest to you and you have experience with the skills listed above, please do not hesitate to contact us!

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