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SeniorFull-timeRustRailsAWSGCPCI/CD
Salary Range
$99,450 - $134,550 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace, connecting private car sellers with verified dealers nationwide. We are seeking a Developer Experience Security Engineer to help enable a secure, scalable, and frictionless developer experience across Motorway. This role will act as a bridge between the Developer Experience team and Security Operations team, ensuring security strategy is embedded into platform abstractions, tooling, and defaults.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design, implement, and maintain secure-by-default platform capabilities that are easy for product teams to adopt.
- →Build automated security checks, guardrails, and visibility that continuously assess risk and reduce the need for manual security audits.
- →Collaborate with engineering to embed secure software development practices into CI/CD pipelines, templates, and shared tooling.
- →Reduce manual work for the technology and Security Operations Team using automation.
- →Ensure platform-level security telemetry, logging, and monitoring are consistent, high-quality, and provided as a standard capability for all teams.
- →Define and implement platform-wide security use cases that scale across teams without bespoke configuration.
- →Work as part of a virtual SOC with the Security Operations Team to support in security incident response.
- →Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends and best practices.
- →Enable secure engineering practices through documentation, examples, platform defaults, and targeted training.
- →Help translate security policies and standards into practical, enforceable platform patterns and guardrails.
Requirements
- ✓Proven experience as a Platform engineer, Developer Experience engineer, or similar role focused on enabling other engineers.
- ✓Proven experience working with Containers and serverless with Infrastructure as code.
- ✓Good knowledge of AWS cloud security best practices and tooling.
- ✓Technical knowledge of best practice security for networks, systems, web applications, APIs and databases.
- ✓Good understanding of secure software development practices.
- ✓Familiarity with security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, WAF and vulnerability scanners.
- ✓Knowledge of common adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (Mitre Att&ck TTPs).
- ✓Knowledge of security standards and frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, NIST CSF) is beneficial.
- ✓Relevant security certifications (e.g. GCLD, Security+, AWS/GCP Security Certifications) are a plus.
- ✓Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- ✓Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
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