Security Engineering Lead

The Security Engineering Lead is a senior role within the Information Security team, responsible for guiding and developing the organisation’s security engineering and DevSecOps capabilities. The role provides technical direction, supports team growth, and oversees a multi-disciplinary group that designs, builds, operates, and improves security platforms and controls.

Reporting to the CISO, the Security Engineering Lead ensures that security tooling, automation, and engineering practices support Security Operations, software engineering teams, and the wider Information Security strategy. The role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management, prioritisation, and strategic alignment to help security scale with the organisation’s growth and risk profile.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary security engineering and DevSecOps team.
• Set technical standards and direction for security engineering, automation, and platform operations.
• Oversee core security platforms, including SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, identity, and email security.
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and engineering workflows.
• Drive automation and integration to improve scale, reliability, and consistency.
• Lead adoption of AI-driven security capabilities and automation tools.
• Guide implementation of security agents, MCP integrations, and AI-assisted detection and response.
• Partner with Security Architecture to align controls with design principles and risk appetite.
• Support audits and assurance activities with clear, accurate technical evidence.
• Foster a positive engineering culture focused on quality, learning, and continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or security operations engineering.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop technical security teams.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, detection engineering, and modern endpoint security tools.
• Experience with vulnerability management, identity platforms, and email security controls.
• Understanding of Secure Service Edge, Zero Trust principles, and cloud security practices.
• Experience embedding security into cloud-native, DevOps, and engineering environments.
• An engineering mindset with strong automation, API, and integration skills.
• Experience supporting audits or assurance frameworks such as ISO 27001.
• Clear communication skills and confidence working with senior stakeholders.
• Interest or experience in emerging technologies, including AI-enabled security capabilities.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve Top Employer status in the UK.

Benefits:

• Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments.
• A minimum of 35 days holiday (including bank holidays) and the option to buy and sell days.
• Health benefits including Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, and Mental Health First Aiders.
• Financial benefits such as 50% off motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, and Competitive Pension.
• Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, and Sports and Social Club events.
• Maternity and paternity leave entitlements at full pay.
• Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets, and Laptops.
• Car Salary Exchange and Cycle Scheme.
• Return to work programme after maternity leave.

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.