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The team works closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Development, DevOps and other security teams to embed security earlier in the technology lifecycle and reduce reliance on manual security processes.\nIn this role, you will take a hands-on approach to engineering and improving security capabilities across cloud, identity, endpoint, vulnerability management and the wider security technology estate. You will develop integrations, tooling and automation that improve security outcomes while simplifying how security is consumed by other teams.\nYou will help mature and optimise existing security investments rather than simply introducing new technology, ensuring our platforms are effectively integrated and aligned with business risk. The role offers opportunities to broaden your experience, working across areas such as security architecture, threat modelling, development, continuous control validation and emerging technologies including AI.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, configure and maintain security platforms and protective controls across our technology environment, including XDR, SIEM, SOAR, cloud security and vulnerability management capabilities.\nDevelop security tooling, integrations and automation using APIs, scripting, SOAR and other engineering approaches, turning repetitive or manual processes into scalable and self-service capabilities where appropriate.\nSupport and improve identity security, privileged access and secrets management capabilities, including their integration across infrastructure and applications.\nSupport the firm to adopt AI securely by understanding emerging risks, contributing to practical guardrails and exploring ways AI can improve how we build, automate and deliver security. Work closely with Core Platform teams to embed security earlier in project and development lifecycles, developing secure-by-default patterns, guardrails and security controls that can be adopted consistently.\nSupport and improve our cloud security posture and the integration of security testing and controls into CI/CD and development workflows.\nContribute to security architecture, technical design reviews and threat modelling, providing practical security guidance that helps technology teams understand risk and implement proportionate solutions.\nDevelop and maintain security orchestration, platform integrations and data flows that support security operations and incident response. Provide specialist engineering support during incidents where required.\nTest and continuously validate security controls through configuration testing, attack simulation and Threat Informed Defence, using the results to improve preventative and detective controls.\nProduce and maintain clear technical documentation for security platforms, integrations, architecture and engineered solutions. Continually develop your expertise across security engineering, cloud, identity, application security and other emerging technologies, sharing knowledge and new approaches with the wider team.\nWhat success looks like\nYou build a strong understanding of our environment and use it to make proportionate, risk-based engineering decisions.\nSecurity solutions are reliable, maintainable and effective for the teams that use them.\nManual effort and unnecessary complexity are reduced through effective automation and simplification.\nTechnology teams receive clear, practical security engineering advice that helps them understand and manage risk.\nOur existing security capabilities continue to mature as you broaden your knowledge across different security domains.\nYour knowledge and experience\nYou will have practical experience working within Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Identity & Access Management, DevOps, or a closely related technical discipline.\nYou will bring strong knowledge and practical engineering experience across several of the following areas, with solid technical foundations and the ability to learn and develop across different security domains:\nSecurity engineering and architecture principles, vulnerability management, security testing and control validation.\nCloud security, particularly Microsoft Azure, alongside a good understanding of Windows and/or Linux environments and enterprise networking.\nIdentity and access management, privileged access, secrets management and associated access-control technologies.\nSecurity platforms, including, Endpoint and XDR technologies, particularly CrowdStrike, as well as experience with SIEM, SOAR and other security platforms.\nAutomation and integration skills including scripting or development using PowerShell, Python, Bash or similar, API-based integrations and Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation technologies such as Terraform.\nCI/CD pipelines, version control and approaches for integrating security controls and testing into development and deployment workflows.\nAn understanding of AI technologies, emerging security risks and appropriate guardrails and how these can be applied to support the firm’s secure adoption of AI and improve security engineering, automation and development.\nThe Type of Candidate We’re Looking For\nYou are a practical and curious engineer who enjoys understanding how things work, solving technical problems and building security solutions that help others work securely. You are comfortable learning and applying your experience to unfamiliar technologies and problems.\nYou take a pragmatic approach to security and work well with others across technology. You can understand what teams are trying to achieve, identify the security risks that matter and turn them into practical solutions. You naturally look for opportunities to simplify, automate and improve how things are done.\nYou communicate clearly, exercise good technical judgement and are comfortable challenging existing approaches when you see a better way of doing something. You are motivated to keep developing your skills and enjoy sharing your knowledge and ideas with a wider team.\nCritical Skills\nData literacy\nDigital effectiveness (incl. AI)\nImprovement mindset\nSystems thinking\nTeam working\nClosing Date\nOctober 21, 2026Should you choose to use AI tools to support your application, we ask that you do this thoughtfully. We encourage you to ensure your application reflects your own voice, experience, and motivations. We value authenticity and want to understand your individual strengths and perspectives.\nAt Baillie Gifford, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful culture in which each of our colleagues can thrive and develop. We believe that our clients are best served by a diverse workforce with the experiences, ideas and perspectives that this brings.\nIf you are currently working at Baillie Gifford as an employee or contractor please apply to this job from the firm's Workday internal career site.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7385,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Asset Management & Funds"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T22:17:47Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-16T06:21:30+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.806,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:3","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/baillie-gifford-security-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/baillie-gifford-security-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T15:22:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15177,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":450166},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=450166"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbaillie-gifford-security-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbaillie-gifford-security-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbaillie-gifford-security-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/baillie-gifford-security-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbaillie-gifford-security-engineer"}]}