Senior Security Engineer, Checkatrade
Security Operations
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Posted today
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Posted today
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- It’s not about ticking every box. It’s about turning up curious, ready to crack on. You’ll do well here if you bring:
- Demonstrable experience across application security, cloud security, and modern platform engineering. You've built things, not just reviewed them
- A strong, evidenced point of view on how agentic AI transforms code review, threat modelling, and developer enablement, with the receipts to back it up
- Extensive hands-on experience securing complex multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure), plus deep familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD security patterns
- A genuine sense of developer empathy, built from sitting with engineers, watching them work, and shipping things they actually want to use
What the job involves
- As our next Security Engineer, you'll shape how secure software gets built at Checkatrade
- You'll design the platforms, paved paths, and guardrails that let engineering teams ship fast without trading off security and use AI and automation to make secure-by-default the cheapest, easiest option every time
- This isn't a checkbox security role. It's about building the rails so every team rolls forward securely
- Forget long lists, here’s what you’ll actually spend your time on :
- Design and implement scalable security controls and platform-level guardrails across our multi-cloud estate: build it once, make it the default everywhere
- Drive a modern secure SDLC by embedding threat modelling, SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, and dependency hygiene directly into the developer workflow, not bolted on as an afterthought
- Prototype and deploy AI agents that review code, triage findings, and turn vulnerability noise into actionable signals, becoming the assistant every developer wishes they had
- Own the security of our IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platforms, making least privilege the default rather than a project
- Partner with engineering to deliver paved paths, libraries, and tooling that make the secure way the easy way
- Run technical security reviews for new applications and infrastructure changes, finding the issues that matter with the evidence to back it up
Application process
- How we’ll get to know each other:
- Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
- 1st stage interview with Hiring Manager - Head of InfoSec
- 2nd Stage interview with IT Manager & Director of Engineering
- If this sounds like the place where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t tick every box
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Meet the team
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Customer-Obsessed: We listen deeply, solve meaningfully, and earn trust.
- AI Powered: We embrace smart tools to move faster, think bigger, and stay ahead.
- All In: We commit fully, collaborate boldly, take ownership and show resilience.
Company HQ
Moorgate, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Alex Inett (Head of Talent)
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 24% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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