Senior Security Engineer / Lead Security Engineer

IFS

📍 Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka On-Site ⏳ 11h ago
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Job Description

As a Senior / Lead Security Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for security engineering across the organization. You will set technical direction, own critical security capabilities, drive cross-team security initiatives, and mentor engineers at all levels. You are accountable for the maturity and effectiveness of security engineering, balancing risk, delivery, and engineering realities.

This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management role — though it carries significant influence and mentorship responsibility.

Duties and accountabilities

Technical strategy and ownership

• Define and drive the technical direction for security engineering.

• Own critical security domains and capabilities end to end (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security, vulnerability management).

• Set standards, patterns, and guardrails that scale across teams.

• Make and own high-impact, risk-based security decisions.

Cross-team