As our next Senior Security Engineer, you'll play a key role in helping us build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace. Your work will directly support millions of homeowners in finding the right tradesperson for the job fast, fair, and without the faff by protecting the systems and data that power those connections.

Security Engineering & Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of highly available, scalable security controls and services across a multi-cloud environment.

Security Operations & Incident Response: Mature and lead detection, analysis, and containment capabilities, driving post-incident remediation and preventative measures. AI-Driven Security Transformation: Spearhead the evaluation, prototyping, and deployment of agentic AI patterns to automate security tasks, enhance threat detection, and transform engineering throughput.

Tooling & Automation Mastery: Take ownership of the security tooling lifecycle, from evaluation and deployment to configuration and continuous maturity across infrastructure. Perform technical deep-dive security reviews for new applications, development stacks, and infrastructure changes, enforcing the principle of least privilege. It's not about ticking every box.

It's about turning up curious, ready to crack on. With demonstrable, hands-on experience across Security Operations, Incident Response, and Security Engineering.



With a strong technical perspective on how agentic patterns, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop design can transform security engineering practices, alongside a genuine passion for building AI-powered security solutions.

Applying a holistic, system-level approach to security challenges, standardising processes and technology where it adds maximum value while enabling autonomy for development teams. Comfortable working directly with code and infrastructure, eager to learn new technologies, and committed to challenging the status quo to drive meaningful change. Cloud-agnostic: Bringing extensive experience securing complex, distributed multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

Technically deep in networking and infrastructure: With strong exposure to modern networking, platform engineering, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Buy & sell holiday scheme ~1st stage interview with the Hiring Manager - Head of Information Security ~2nd Stage interview with Hiring Manager & Director of Engineering At the moment, this role isn't open to visa sponsorship applications. We're growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements.

If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you'll fit right in. #

📌 Senior Security Engineer, AWS Security (Barcelona)
🏢 Checkatrade
📍 Barcelona