Security Engineer – AppSec, GRC, AI Security

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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David Kennedy Recruitment Ltd.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

David Kennedy Recruitment Ltd is a distinguished virtual recruitment consultancy with a global presence spanning more than 40 countries. The company specializes in delivering exceptional recruitment services internationally, utilizing an innovative approach to seamlessly connect candidates and clients. With over 150 staff operating across five continents and conducting business in more than 32 languages, David Kennedy Recruitment Ltd focuses on exceeding the expectations of both clients and candidates, offering multilingual and executive search services, competitor analysis, and relocation assistance to ensure a comprehensive recruitment experience.

📋 Description

• Take end-to-end ownership of security operations as the company's sole dedicated Security Engineer • Review application code, identify and remediate vulnerabilities • Work with developers using Git/GitHub • Coordinate external penetration tests and security audits • Build and maintain the security risk register • Assess exposure across systems and support audit follow-up • Prioritise fixes by risk and business impact • Monitor security alerts and threats • Run security awareness programmes and phishing simulations • Provide occasional evening and weekend security monitoring cover • Manage secure onboarding and offboarding • Manage device security through MDM and access permissions • Strengthen internal security controls • Track generative AI security risks, including prompt injection, jailbreaks and filter bypasses • Monitor vulnerabilities in third-party AI providers • Collaborate directly with engineering leadership and developers

🎯 Requirements

• 2–3+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional scale-up experience • Strong application security experience, including code reviews and vulnerability remediation • Proven experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests • Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub • Practical scripting or automation skills, ideally Python or Bash • Previous experience within an AI company or a scale-up with 50+ employees • Sound understanding of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation • Ability to independently identify, investigate and resolve security issues, and to take end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced environment • Excellent English communication skills • Based in Europe, with approximately 80% overlap with CET working hours • Comfortable with occasional evening/weekend security monitoring • Fully comfortable working with adult/NSFW content as part of daily responsibilities • B2B engagement preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote working from Europe • Opportunity to own security for a fast-growing AI platform with over 50 million users • Direct collaboration with engineering leadership • Hands-on, non-advisory role with real responsibility for security outcomes