The Role
Leads hands-on security engineering across detection and response, identity and access, data protection, application and cloud security, threat modeling, incident response, control assurance, and security automation. Diagnoses complex vulnerabilities and control gaps, implements preventative measures, improves security standards and workflows, leads incident exercises, and coaches colleagues. Partners with technical and business stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, risk-informed security and privacy solutions in a regulated environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
At CFC, technology is at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for Senior Security Engineers to act as hands on problem-solvers and subject matter experts in their security and/or privacy domain, guide other people through complex issues, and lead continuous improvement of security governance, management and operations.
This is a lead individual contributor role able to both implement and verify automated controls in detection and response, identity and access, data protection, product security, or control assurance. The responsibilities below are a broad sample of security engineering across the information security function. You will be a specialist in a few and have a more general understanding and/or experience in the rest.
About the role
This is a broad selection of responsibilities across the information security function at CFC. The specific role responsibilities will depend on the individual’s background and team’s mission.
- Diagnoses and refines successful and failed detections, alerts and security logs, including network and endpoint alerts, to ensure security logging and monitoring coverage meets the needs of CFC's business objectives and its technology and threat environments.
- Leads incident response operations and continuous improvement from investigation through containment and recovery, publishes incident reports with revised playbooks.
- Designs and operates threat assessment services, including threat profiling and modelling and attack simulation, and records attack paths, threat intelligence and new requirements arising from assessments.
- Diagnoses complex chains of vulnerabilities or misconfigurations in software, application security tests, the build pipeline, malware defences, email and web protection, secure configuration or network infrastructure to root cause, and designs and implements controls to prevent recurrence.
- Produces expert guidance on the security design for a system and leads the security aspects of definitions of ready and done in projects.
- Diagnoses systemic contributing factors in conditional access, privileged access, device verification or the identity lifecycle failures, and implements the controls to prevent recurrence.
- Classifies sensitive data sets that have or will fail control coverage or effectiveness testing and implements the data protection controls to prevent recurrence, covering data loss prevention, encryption, privacy requests, insider detection and disposal.
- Evaluates control assurance, audit and continuous controls monitoring findings against the asset inventory, traces gaps, and updates standards and monitoring to prevent recurrence.
- Builds integration templates, self-serve, deterministic and non-deterministic workflow automations and analytics for repeated security tasks and coaches teams on runbooks.
- Leads incident exercises, runs tabletops against the continuity plan, and coaches CFC colleagues through awareness training and behavioural nudges.
- Experience building and maturing security standards, workflows, guidance and operational controls.
About you
We are interested in engineers who have applied their specialist technical expertise at scale and speed. You will likely bring:
- Proven experience in a technical security role, including security operations, threat detection and response, security engineering, cloud security, or application security within a fast-paced regulated organisation.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code and software supply-chain security.
- Experience leading threat modelling and resolving complex security and privacy design trade-offs.
- Ability to assess and deploy emerging data protection, AI and agentic engineering practices pragmatically and establish proportionate controls.
- Ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders through evidence, technical credibility and a pragmatic appreciation of both rigour and speed.
- Practice guiding engineers who are earlier in their career in the same domain, and coaching people through an exercise or a training session.
- Keen security mindset with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of assessing complex risks, identifying root causes, and delivering practical, threat and risk-informed solutions.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
About
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Austin, Madrid, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 1200 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.Feeling like you need to tick every box before applying? We see things differently. In a rapidly scaling company like ours, ambition and the drive to learn count for more than a 'perfect' checklist. We're building the future of insurance, and that requires diverse talent eager to grow with us. If this role excites you and you're ready to make a significant impact, bring your unique background and let's build something great together.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in a technical security role such as security operations, threat detection and response, security engineering, cloud security, or application security within a fast-paced regulated organization.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code, and software supply-chain security.
- Experience leading threat modeling and resolving complex security and privacy design trade-offs.
- Ability to assess and deploy emerging data protection, AI, and agentic engineering practices and establish proportionate controls.
- Ability to influence senior technical and non-technical stakeholders through evidence, technical credibility, and pragmatic judgment.
- Experience guiding early-career engineers and coaching colleagues through exercises or training sessions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including complex risk assessment, root-cause analysis, and delivery of practical threat-informed solutions.
- Experience building and maturing security standards, workflows, guidance, and operational controls.
CFC Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CFC and has not been reviewed or approved by CFC.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Variable pay is positioned as a core part of total compensation, with a group‑wide annual bonus highlighted as a consistent feature. Expanding employee share ownership is described as enhancing overall rewards alongside bonuses.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance is provided, complemented by dental and optical cashback and a 24/7 employee assistance programme. These elements indicate comprehensive health coverage beyond standard medical plans.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away provisions include 25 days of holiday and paid volunteer time, signaling a broad approach to time off. Additional practices such as company social events support overall work–life rhythm, though they are not leave per se.
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The Company
What We Do
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneer in emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Their global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today’s most critical business risks.
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