Remote Senior Security Engineer (AI & DevSecOps) in Guildford

About iProov

iProov provides science-based biometric solutions that enable the world’s most security-conscious organizations to streamline secure remote onboarding and authentication for digital and physical access. Our award-winning liveness technology and iSOC offer unmatched resilience against deepfakes and generative AI threats while ensuring effortless, scalable user experiences. Trusted by leading governments and enterprises, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.K. Home Office, GovTech Singapore, ING, and UBS, iProov sets the standard in biometric identity assurance.

This global trust is built not only on our technology but on the strength of the people behind it. For us, diversity at iProov is about reflecting the customers we serve, holding the principles of equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do and all that we stand for, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together. We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included, and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our purpose.

The Role

Reports to: Head of Cybersecurity

Location: WeWork Waterloo - Hybrid

Comp: $ (Base) + Company Performance Bonus (20%) + Share Options + US iProov Benefits

The role was created specifically to provide the technical security depth that will allow us to accelerate our adoption of agentic AI, equipping developers and data scientists building our biometric products with the tools and workflows to use AI safely and at pace. You will work as the direct counterpart to our GRC-focused InfoSec Manager, owning the engineering and implementation side of our security posture across cloud infrastructure, developer workflows, AI systems, and our core security toolstack. This is a role for someone who has built and shipped software or infrastructure and brings that experience into a security context.

How you can make an impact

• Architect and deploy the secure technical framework that governs the security controls for how our developers and scientists use agentic AI, including AI coding assistants, autonomous agents, and LLM-integrated tooling.
• Be the primary technical security voice in decisions around the use and deployment of externally developed AI, ensuring the right controls are in place from the onset.
• Continuously mature automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code deployments, championing the DevSecOps culture across a large engineering organisation.
• Take hands-on ownership of our core security technology stack, including Wiz, CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, and Tailscale, ensuring these platforms are correctly configured, tuned, and integrated.
• Drive continuous technical delivery of strategic security initiatives, systematically identifying, triaging, and closing gaps across our cloud environments, internal networks, and developer workflows.
• Provide technical oversight of the security of the data pipelines feeding our internal AI systems and, critically, the permissions and access boundaries of agentic AI systems reaching out into other environments, enforcing the principle of least privilege, maintaining audit trails, and ensuring sensitive data and code integrity is handled with the rigour required.
• Complement the work of our existing biometric and product focused Red Team by owning security coverage of the DevSecOps surface, the build pipeline, internal toolchain, cloud environments and developer infrastructure.
• Act as the primary technical security partner to our GRC-focused InfoSec Manager, translating governance and compliance mandates into concrete, automated engineering controls.
• Represent the technical security function in external audits, presenting evidence of controls, articulating the security posture of our cloud and AI environments to auditors, and working closely with the InfoSec Manager to ensure the technical substance behind our compliance position is clearly and credibly communicated.

What we would like to see from you

• A foundational background in software engineering or DevOps before moving into a dedicated security role: you understand how code is written, tested, and deployed, and that experience is central to how you approach security problems.
• Proven, hands-on experience securing modern cloud infrastructure and containerised environments, with a solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and the security implications of how infrastructure is defined and provisioned.
• Proficiency in deploying and administering enterprise security platforms, ideally with direct experience managing tools spanning CNAPP, EDR, SIEM, and zero-trust networking.
• A heavy and active user of AI in both professional and personal contexts, including agentic AI tools and coding assistants, with a grounded understanding of the evolving AI threat landscape, including model supply chain risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, agent misuse, and LLM-specific attack vectors.
• Scripting and automation capability, particularly in Python, to build internal tooling, automate security checks, and reduce reliance on manual processes across the security function.
• Prior experience or a demonstrated practical interest in securing AI workloads, data pipelines, and machine learning environments.
• The communication skills to collaborate effectively with highly technical stakeholders, champion security initiatives without hindering developer productivity, and translate risk into language that resonates with both engineering peers and business leadership, including the confidence to present technical security evidence clearly in formal external audit settings.

Benefits

25 days Annual Leave, plus 8