My client, an up and coming re-insurance organisation, are looking for a Head of Application Security to join their growing team in London.

About the Head of Application Security Role:

My client is looking for a Head of Application Security to join the team. In this role you'll be working closely with Engineering, SRE, and Product teams to help embed risk-conscious technical security controls in their services and products, development workflows and activities.

What will you be doing?:

You'll act as a subject matter expert on the domain of application security, run Threat Modelling exercises with the engineering teams, and work on cloud native security tooling, automating our work, and leveraging infrastructure of code.

Bringing your experience of writing and reviewing code, with a strong interest in security you will facilitate and manage security testing workflows in the SDLC with code and runtime security scanners and vulnerability testing tools, whilst enabling cloud security governance (AWS, GCP) with security monitoring, cloud security posture and vulnerability management.

This role sits in the Security Architecture and Engineering (SANE) team within their Cyber Security team. They're a small team of cyber security experts enabling my client's business, product and engineering teams to build and operate our platforms and offering securely. If you like thinking outside of the box, solving problems, and have a curious nature, then this is your opportunity!

If you want to find more please apply to this role via advert or call me on 0207 509 8040 or email your CV on darius.goodarzi@robertwalters.com

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About the job

Contract Type: Permanent

Specialism: Technology & Digital

Focus: Information Security

Industry: Banking

Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 per annum

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Senior Management

Location: London
FULL_TIME
Job Reference: A4OV5V-156A1C5E

Date posted: 1 July 2025

Consultant: Darius Goodarzi
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