Principal Application Security Engineer

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Principal Application Security Engineer

Manchester

£110,000 fixed salary + bonus and benefits

Join a globally recognised, market leading financial institution to design and deliver security tools that enable developers to build secure software from day one. Your work will play a critical role in strengthening security across the organisation, helping to protect core systems and sensitive data.

• Design, build, and maintain security software solutions
• Act as a subject matter expert in security engineering patterns and platforms
• Implement secure protocols and software to safeguard applications and data
• Oversee secure management of secrets across systems
• Assess and monitor vulnerabilities, supporting audits and incident response
• Evaluate and adopt emerging cryptographic technologies
• Partner with engineering and security teams to meet business, regulatory, and security requirements
• Develop and maintain IAM solutions

• Strong understanding of software vulnerabilities, including CVEs and CWEs
• Experience with application security testing tools (SAST, SCA, DAST) and their trade-offs
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java or Go)
• Hands‑on experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Knowledge of REST API design and HTTP authentication
• Comfortable working in Linux environments, including scripting and automation across Shell/Python
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines

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Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Financial Services and Banking

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