Senior Security Engineer

England, United Kingdom

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Oxbotica

Oxa is a global leader in autonomous vehicle software for businesses. Any vehicle. Any environment. Any purpose.

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Are you a Senior Security Engineer interested in or currently working with autonomous vehicle technology? If so, we are looking to talk with you about your experience with security processes and technologies in a web application and infrastructure environments in line with the opportunity to join Oxbotica as a Senior Security Engineer.

At Oxbotica, we’re fuelled by a bold purpose: to make the Earth move.

From passenger shuttles to industrial vehicles; from congested city streets to mines, our industry-leading autonomy software platform enables any vehicle to operate itself safely, securely and efficiently. We call it Universal Autonomy. It is changing how people and goods move.

We are a world-class team guided by a shared vision to bring the benefits of autonomy to our customers and users. Using our skills, experience and diversity, we are solving the most exciting and important technological challenges of our times, and creating a safer and more sustainable future for people and our planet.

Our 250+ (and growing) team members in the UK and Canada are building, scaling and commercialising our universal autonomy software to serve immediate market and deployment opportunities.

We’re seeking bold, creative, hyper-skilled people to join us. Come create the future of autonomy with us at Oxbotica. Become an “Oxbot”.

Your Team

The team you will be joining is responsible for developing, maintaining, securing, and deploying Oxbotica’s cloud-based fleet management platform. We build tools and services for real-time tracking of fleets, remote assistance, and managing cloud infrastructure.

Your day as a Senior Security Engineer might include:

  • Working with a range of other software engineers to spec, design, build, test, deploy, and maintain production-ready web application back-ends, microservices, and associated infrastructure, with a particular focus on ensuring they are correctly secured.
  • Working with other team members to embed security processes and technologies into our web applications and infrastructure.
  • Liaising with the broader cybersecurity team to perform threat modelling and implementing technical mitigations (e.g. for ISO 21434 road vehicle cyber security).
  • Performing penetration testing of our web applications and infrastructure.
  • Performing technical investigation of security incidents.
  • Assisting in wider organisational cyber security activities such as the evaluation of new software and services.
  • Collaborating with other team members, discussing problem solving approaches, participating in code reviews and pair programming.
  • Contributing to daily stand ups and other agile ceremonies to ensure visibility of team progress, including planning, reviewing, and highlighting risk or scope creep against project requirements.
  • Liaising with leaders throughout the company to understand the overall drive, direction and technical requirements of the company, and how that impacts and steers your team.

Our Culture

At Oxbotica, our diverse and inclusive culture fuels our growth. We celebrate individuality, foster an environment in which trust and respect flourish, and believe that innovation thrives when powered by different perspectives, experiences and ideas. Our purpose, values and principles anchor us as we grow.

Learn more about our culture here


Requirements

What you need to succeed as a Senior Security Engineer:

  • Demonstrable knowledge of best practices for securing web and cloud applications
  • Experience developing cybersecurity tools, tests, and fixing security issues in web back-ends (ideally Python)
  • Evidence of working with and securing database management systems (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Back-end web development skills, ideally with Python (Django, Flask, or gRPC)
  • Knowledge of Linux based systems and network architectures
  • Willingness to work on varied projects across cloud, on-prem and products
  • Have well developed analytical and written skills, with strong attention to detail
  • The ability to operate in a fast paced and innovative development environment
  • Demonstrable commitment to improving security across a company

Extra kudos if you have:

  • Automotive cyber security experience
  • Evidence of helping to establish security standards (e.g. ISO27001) in a company
  • Working experience of SOAR and/or IDS
  • Participation in cybersecurity competitions such as “capture the flag” (CTF)
  • Other cybersecurity exposure (reverse engineering, red/blue team exercises, C/C++ security expertise)

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Company share programme
  • Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
  • An outstanding £3,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
  • Funded relocation support
  • Fully funded visa sponsorship if required
  • A salary exchange pension plan
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • A pet friendly office environment
  • Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: Agile Blue team C C++ Cloud CTF Django Flask IDS Industrial ISO 27001 Linux Microservices NoSQL Pentesting Python Reverse engineering SOAR SQL

Perks/benefits: Competitive pay Flex hours Health care Medical leave Pet friendly Relocation support Team events

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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