At a Glance
- Tasks: Support hands-on application and workflow remediation in a security assessment programme.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on security and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, remote work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Remote role with occasional travel to London; excellent career development potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing security measures and improving workflows.
- Qualifications: Experience in security engineering and familiarity with coding and workflows.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Location: Remote (Occasional travel to their London office)
Contract: Inside IR35
Day rate: Up to £800 per day
Duration: 6 months
Start date: ASAP
The Security Remediation Engineer will support the delivery of hands-on application, workflow, release and logging remediation within a security assessment remediation programme. The successful contractors will work with AppSec / DevSecOps, QA automation, MLOps, Data / AI Governance, ServiceNow / Jira specialists and the Security Remediation Lead to implement application-level changes that close controls and generate usable evidence. This is a remediation engineering role. Candidates should be comfortable working in existing codebases, improving delivery workflows, tightening operational controls and documenting implementation evidence.
Assignment Objectives:
- Analyse assessment findings and translate assigned remediation items into concrete software changes.
- Implement changes to application workflows, state transitions, access checks, release flows and integration behaviours.
- Support Jira workflow and status changes where application or delivery process alignment is required.
- Create or update release and rollback playbooks with practical engineering input.
- Improve application logging for user activity, security-relevant events, errors and operational diagnostics.
- Integrate with Application Insights, Log Analytics or comparable monitoring and telemetry tooling.
- Support secrets management and secure configuration using Azure Key Vault, managed identities and controlled deployment settings.
- Work with AppSec / DevSecOps engineers to remediate vulnerabilities, dependency issues and secure coding findings.
- Work with QA automation to increase regression coverage and make remediation test evidence repeatable.
- Support PostgreSQL access governance, data handling, retention and auditability improvements where application changes are needed.
- Maintain traceability from Jira tickets to code changes, pull requests, tests, releases and evidence artefacts.
- Document changes clearly enough for control owners, retesters and BAU maintainers to understand the control outcome.
Security Remediation Engineer employer: Morson Edge
As a Security Remediation Engineer at our company, you will be part of a dynamic and innovative team that values collaboration and continuous improvement. We offer a flexible remote working environment with occasional travel to our London office, ensuring a healthy work-life balance while providing opportunities for professional growth in the ever-evolving field of security. Our culture fosters open communication and encourages employees to take ownership of their projects, making it an excellent place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
