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Lead / Associate Lead Security Engineer

Colombo, Western Province, lk💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-25

Core

Provide technical leadership for security engineering, setting direction, owning critical capabilities (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security), and driving cross-team initiatives.

Role type

Senior IC security engineering lead (technical leadership, no people management)

Builds

Security automation tooling, reliable security platforms, and scalable guardrails for engineering teams

Domain

Cyber Security / Enterprise Software

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Security engineering, DevSecOps, CI/CD tooling, scripting (Python/Bash), vulnerability management, containerization, security standards

Preferred skills

Enterprise product security leadership, incident response, mentoring senior engineers, influencing engineering-wide standards

Technologies

Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC

Responsibilities

Define technical direction for security engineering; own critical security domains end-to-end; lead security initiatives across multiple teams; drive security automation and tooling strategy; lead response and root-cause analysis for security incidents; mentor engineers and emerging leads

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with significant influence and mentorship responsibility

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