Lead Security Engineer
About the Role
In this opportunity as Lead Security Engineer, you will:
Act as the technical lead for security across application, cloud, and infrastructure. Set technical direction, make the key calls, own the shape and quality of the security backlog end to end, and serve as the point of escalation for complex security and remediation work, without direct line-management responsibility.
Design and build security controls across layers such as operating systems, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, cloud configuration, and network boundaries, to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
Design new security processes and ways of working, revamping patching cycles and golden-image and base-image refreshes across cloud and on-prem, so the team can move fast without sacrificing safety.
Come to the table with ideas: identify where security and remediation processes can be improved, propose better approaches, and turn them into standards the team adopts.
Set the technical approach across the full security scope: application and open-source dependency fixes, infrastructure patching, cloud configuration and guardrails, WAF, network isolation, and secrets and machine-identity management. Prioritize by risk in line with industry best practice such as CISA guidance (CISA KEV, CVSS/EPSS, and SLA-driven burndown), and champion adoption of AI-augmented security tooling, including SAST and SCA.
Raise the technical bar by reviewing fixes and mentoring engineers, and coordinate with the wider security team across regions to keep standards and priorities aligned across time zones.
Own clear reporting and metrics, and build the runbooks, standards, and escalation paths that make security a repeatable, auditable capability.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Lead Security Engineer if your background includes:
8+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, vulnerability management, or cloud and infrastructure security, including time as a technical lead or senior individual contributor setting direction and guiding the technical work of other engineers, plus a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
A deep understanding of security principles, common vulnerabilities, and best practice across application, cloud, and infrastructure layers.
A working command of vulnerability management at scale: prioritization frameworks, CVSS/EPSS, CISA KEV, and SLA-driven burndown.
Breadth across the security stack: application and dependency vulnerabilities, infrastructure patching, guardrails, WAF, network isolation, and identity and access controls, with multi-cloud experience across two or more of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI (all four an advantage) alongside on-premises infrastructure.
A track record of designing and improving technical processes, such as patching cycles, image or GAMI refreshes, or remediation workflows, rather than only executing them, with a proactive mindset for identifying and closing security gaps through automation and tooling; experience with AI-assisted or automated security tooling is an advantage.
Strong judgment on balancing risk reduction against operational and customer impact.
Excellent written and verbal communication, comfortable operating across security, engineering, and business audiences and able to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, with enthusiasm for collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally.
What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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