SecOps Engineer

Apache Associates
London, United Kingdom
3 days ago
£115,000 – £125,000 pa

Salary

£115,000 – £125,000 pa

Posted
22 Jul 2026 (3 days ago)

SecOps Engineer

London (office based 4 days per week)

£115,000 - £125,000

We’re looking for a talented and proactive Security Operations Engineer to join our clients growing team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to be a key player managing data centres (hardware and software) and cloud footprint with a focus on information security. You will be responsible for strengthening and operating security controls across infrastructure, networks, systems and data.

Responsibilities:

  • Systems hardening through configuration, scripting, port and configuration scanning activities
  • Vulnerability management
  • Disaster recovery
  • Enforce data security
  • Extending OSS tools (written mostly in Go or Python)
  • Strengthening network security
  • Implementing an asset management solution
  • Establishing a solid and efficient backup and archival solution, using cloud based and on prem resources
  • Keep up to date with emerging threats, attack techniques and security best practices

Skills:

  • Proven experience in security operations or infrastructure security role
  • Knowledge of storage systems, front and middle office trading and risk systems
  • Demonstrated knowledge of managing routers, firewalls and other critical network components
  • Ideally MS or BS in Computer Science, Engineering or similar
  • CI/CD tooling, such as Jenkins, Jira or Git
  • Proficiency in Linux
  • IaC scripting (such as Terraform)
  • Strong understanding of file systems
  • Outstanding knowledge of at least on programming language, such as Bash, Go, Python etc

If you’re passionate about SecOps, enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to make a meaningful impact in a highly technical environment, we would love to hear from you. Our client offers a competitive salary, benefits package and the opportunity to shape the future of the organisation.

Due to the number of applications, we can only respond to candidates matching the skills and experience required.

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