Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £125,000 and above.
One person doing the job of a security team. At a Series B SaaS business they own GRC, cloud security, application security, IAM, endpoint, vulnerability management, incident response, vendor risk and customer security assurance. Drove SOC 2 Type 2 readiness for Security and Confidentiality, and fronts security conversations with enterprise prospects. AWS-native depth underneath, from an earlier run at a payments business and a digital health company.
Looking forLooking for somewhere they can grow a security team rather than remain the whole function, and wants equity in the package.
How they came acrossTakes ownership of whole domains without being asked twice, which is how the remit got as broad as it is. Comfortable in front of customers, which is rarer in security engineers than it should be.
AWS, GCP, Terraform, Python · Okta, Entra, SSO, MFA, Zero Trust · CrowdStrike, SIEM, Qualys, SOC 2, ISO 27001
Security engineering at a global travel platform, a payments company, a digital health business and now a Series B SaaS firm. 6 employers, average stint 1 year 5 months.
Needs visa sponsorship. That is the first question to settle, and the average stint of 17 months is the second.
Degree in information science.
A computational quantum physics PhD who ended up hunting scammers. Nearly 4 years on integrity and security engineering at a social platform of more than 70,000 people, where their work improved scammer detection by 30 per cent. Before that, 6 years of cyber security machine learning at a quantitative hedge fund, ending as tech lead. Anomaly detection, graph neural networks, changepoint detection and Bayesian statistics, built in Python and shipped through Docker and Kubernetes.
Looking forFeels matured out of the current seat after 4 years. Wants an early-stage company in financial crime or fraud prevention, wants equity upside, and is fine with 3 days a week in an office.
How they came acrossRated 9 out of 10 on communication by the consultant who vetted them, and the appeal is breadth rather than a single specialism. Wants to stop being put in one box, and has the range to justify asking.
Python, Rust, SQL, Hive, Kafka · Machine learning, NLP, graph neural networks, anomaly detection · Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
An education technology startup doing NLP, then a quantitative hedge fund, then a social platform of more than 70,000 people. 3 employers, average stint 3 years 9 months.
3 months notice, and they want equity and a startup environment, so a large corporate seat is unlikely to land however good the base.
PhD in computational quantum physics from a European university.
Security engineering in Go, on the product side rather than the policy side. At an infrastructure automation software company they led identity and access security for their cloud platform, wrote the shared security libraries and tooling, ran threat modelling and code review, and pushed security checks into CI/CD. Zero trust, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML and FAPI are things they have built against, not just read about.
Looking forTold us they wanted out after IBM bought their employer, and back into a startup doing product-focused security with customers in the room. They have since moved to a large developer platform business, so an offer has to beat that rather than the old job.
How they came acrossComfortable in front of clients, which is rare in this discipline. Leads security reviews for external parties and explains complicated setups without flattening them.
Go, Python, Java, gRPC · OAuth2, OIDC, SAML 2.0, Ory Hydra · AWS, GCP, Terraform, Docker
6 employers over 8 years, from a global telecoms operator and a financial services consultancy into infrastructure software and now developer tooling. Average tenure 1 year 4 months, longest stint 2 years 7 months.
Our notes are from September 2025 and they have changed employer since, so the salary and the motivation both need a re-check before you build a pitch on them.
Masters in cyber security from a top ranked UK university.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank