Senior Security Specialist

Compensation Range:

This role offers a location-based annual salary of 70,000–80,000 for candidates based in London and 65,000–75,000 for candidates based outside of London.

Compensation

Disclaimer:

The salary range listed reflects the base pay for this role at Altus Group and is provided where required by local regulations. Actual offers may differ based on experience, market conditions, and other relevant factors. The range does not include additional compensation such as bonuses, equity, benefits, or other incentives.

Who we need Reporting to the Senior Manager, Information Security, we are hiring a Senior Security Specialist to join our Security Engineering team. As our new Senior Security Specialist, you will play a critical role in advancing Altus Group's security maturity by strengthening our security operations, expanding our offensive security capabilities, and improving how we detect and respond to emerging threats.

Working across security engineering, threat intelligence, incident response, and cloud security, you will identify opportunities to improve detection, automate processes, mature security technologies, and strengthen our overall security posture.

This is a fully remote role open to candidates based in the UK, Germany, France, or Luxembourg. You will work as part of a geographically distributed security engineering team spanning the UK and Canada.

What’s in it for you Build and shape our offensive security capabilities. This is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on a growing security program. You will play a key part in advancing Altus Group's offensive security capabilities, helping mature our purple team program, strengthen threat hunting practices, and influence how the organization approaches adversary simulation and security testing. Make an impact.

You will have the trust to identify opportunities, recommend solutions, and lead initiatives that strengthen Altus Group's security posture. Working closely with the Senior Manager, Information Security, you will help shape the security roadmap while partnering across Security Operations and technology teams to drive continuous improvement.

Work across the full spectrum of modern cybersecurity. From security engineering and cloud security to incident response, threat intelligence, automation, and offensive security, this role offers technical breadth. You will solve complex security challenges, improve detection and response capabilities, mentor Security Operations analysts, and contribute to the organization's evolving AI security strategy.

As our new Senior Security Specialist, you will:

Advance our security engineering roadmap. You will strengthen Altus Group's cybersecurity maturity by improving security engineering practices, enhancing detection and response capabilities, and evolving our security technologies. Working across cloud, infrastructure, and security platforms, you will identify opportunities to automate processes, improve visibility, and build more resilient security operations.

Lead offensive security initiatives. You will help mature our offensive security capabilities by leading threat hunting activities, advancing our purple team program, and supporting adversary emulation and complex incident investigations. Working closely with the Security Operations Centre, you will provide technical leadership, mentor analysts, and help strengthen our ability to detect and respond to emerging threats.

Drive innovation and continuous improvement. You will help shape the future of security at Altus Group by contributing to our AI security roadmap, evaluating emerging technologies, and introducing new ideas that improve how we protect the business. As a senior technical contributor, you will have the autonomy to influence the security roadmap and lead initiatives that deliver lasting value across the organization.

You bring:

The security engineering expertise. You have experience across security engineering and security operations, with the ability to solve complex technical challenges and strengthen an organization's security capabilities. You are comfortable acting as a senior technical escalation point, leading…