# Lead Security Engineer

**Company**: Fuse Energy
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Job Description

Fuse Energy is seeking a seasoned and proactive Lead Security Engineer to help lead our security strategy. This role is crucial to protecting our core infrastructure, applications, and sensitive data as we continue to scale.

### Responsibilities

#### Security Architecture & Design

We are looking for someone to design and implement secure infrastructure across cloud, web, and distributed application environments. This includes providing architectural guidance for cryptographic key management, signing workflows, and secure APIs.

#### Risk Management & Threat Modelling

The ideal candidate will conduct comprehensive threat modelling and risk assessments, especially around distributed or high-value transaction systems. They will define controls for securing sensitive operations such as wallet integrations, off-chain/on-chain data flows, and internal tooling.

#### Security Operations & Incident Response

We need someone to lead response to advanced threats and incidents, including analysis, containment, and remediation. They will build and optimise detection mechanisms and playbooks for novel attack vectors, including abuse prevention and fraud detection.

#### Governance, Compliance & Best Practices

The successful candidate will help define internal standards for security development practices, secrets management, and infrastructure hardening.

#### Cross-Functional Collaboration

They will partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to embed security best practices into all stages of development. They will provide guidance on secure system design, especially in areas involving sensitive financial, identity, or cryptographic components.

### Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.

- Proven experience as a Security Engineer or in a similar role.

- Strong understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, and authorisation.

- Familiarity with securing systems that involve digital transactions, cryptographic operations, or high-privilege user actions.

- Knowledge of operating systems, network protocols, and software development security.

- Experience with AWS cloud security.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

### Benefits

- Competitive salary and an equity sign-on bonus

- Biannual bonus scheme

- Fully expensed tech to match your needs

- Paid annual leave

- Breakfast and dinner allowance for office based employees

## Skills

### Required
- security protocols
- cryptography
- authentication
- authorisation
- operating systems
- network protocols
- software development security
- AWS cloud security