Zinc

Senior Security Engineer

Zinc  •  £80k - £85k/yr  •  London, GB (Remote)  •  5 days ago
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Job Description

Senior Security Engineer

Application Deadline: 26 June 2026

Department: Tech - Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Zinc - London

Compensation: £80,000 - £85,000 / year

We're hiring a Security Engineer to run our org-wide technical security posture as Zinc scales. We're an AI-native company. We use Claude, Cursor, Granola, and n8n across the business and we need someone who can build the security frameworks that let us move fast without taking on unacceptable risk.

This is NOT a GRC or compliance role. We have ISO 27001. What we need is someone who builds security controls and capabilities, helping to establish things like our AI tool governance process, and embeds secure-by-design thinking into how we build and operate. If you want to write policies and sit in a compliance function, this isn't the right fit. If you want to shape how a genuinely AI-native business does security, keep reading.

Key Responsibilities 🗝️

  • Own and continuously improve our org-wide security posture
  • Build our AI tool adoption security review and approval process
  • Lead secure-by-design engineering practices across Tech, Ops, and Customer teams
  • Maintain and develop our cloud security posture (AWS)
  • Manage incidents, tooling, integrations, projects, vulnerability & threat hunting
  • Conduct third-party tool risk assessments
  • Manage the transition from our outgoing contractor CISO
  • Influence security culture across the business without direct line authority

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀

Essential:
  • Security engineering background- you identify and build controls, not just document them.
  • Cloud security experience (AWS)
  • Familiarity with security/architecture frameworks
  • Secure-by-design engineering principles
  • 3+ years in a security engineering role
  • Ability to influence without authority and communicate security risk in plain language

Desirable:
  • Experience securing AI tools and LLM-based systems
  • Vulnerability or Threat Hunting inside SaaS environments
  • ISO 27001 working knowledge (we're already certified)
  • SaaS company experience

What we offer 🍉

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
  • 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
  • £1200 annual benefits allowance ( ThanksBen, from month 2)
  • Early finish Fridays (16:00)
  • Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️ (This year it's Turin)
  • 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
  • Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
  • Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
  • Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
  • Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
  • Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
  • Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
  • Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
Zinc

About Zinc

At Zinc, we believe that background checks should be instant, easy, and delightful. Yes, you read that right.

Traditional background checking providers are slow, manual, and error-prone — Zinc’s here to change that.

Here’s how it works:

Step one: Select your checks

With Zinc you get exactly the checks you want, and no extras you don’t. Make your own templates and re-use them, or use our pre-built packages to align with any regulatory check requirements.

Zinc offers global checks in over 190 countries, including:

Credit checks

Address verification

Reference checks

Qualification checks

For a full list, visit https://zincwork.com/checks.

Step two: Tell Zinc who you’re checking

Enter your candidate or employee’s name and email address, then click “Request checks.”

The rest is easy: Candidates use our mobile-friendly platform to submit any required information, referee names, and additional documents. We’ll even chase references for you.

Here’s what Becca Covill, HR Operations Specialist at Jensten, said about Zinc references:

“When we’ve used different providers, there was a lot of manual intervention required. But with Zinc, we’ve been able to put them in, click a button, and it just runs.”

To stay in the loop, just visit your Zinc dashboard and get at-a-glance updates.

Learn more about Zinc’s commitment to candidate experience here: https://zincwork.com/candidates

Step three: Get results, fast

With direct HMRC integrations and automated workflows, Zinc delivers results fast. Like, really fast.

“Obviously I recommend Zinc, but an IDSP will change your life overnight. It had instant results.” — Zander Loftus, Recruitment Manager, Hexagon Care

View results directly in the Zinc platform, or get them delivered to your ATS or HRIS. Zinc integrates with platforms like Workday, Pinpoint, Greenhouse, and more. For a full list of our available integrations, visit https://zincwork.com/integrations.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2017
Website
zincwork.com
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