Product Application Security Analyst

You'll act as a trusted security advisor to engineering communities across the entire product lifecycle. This is a non-hands-on, advisory and governance-focused role designed to embed "security-by-design" into modern monolithic and microservice application architectures. You'll lead threat modelling, conduct technical risk assessments, evaluate third-party SaaS vendors, and translate complex risk into pragmatic guidance for engineering squads and business stakeholders. Partnering with a major UK enterprise digital platform to bring in a Senior InfoSec Analyst into their Product Assurance team. This isn't a checkbox compliance job, nor is it an operational 2nd-line ticket handling role. You'll sit right alongside software delivery squads and product teams, acting as the technical security authority across monolithic and microservice application architectures. What the day-to-day looks like • Security by Design: Threat modelling (STRIDE/OWASP) and setting security requirements early in the SDLC alongside dev squads • Architectural Assurance: Advising engineering teams on cloud-native security controls, containerisation, and API gateway logic • Risk & Advisory: Conducting technical risk assessments on internal products and third-party SaaS vendors, turning technical flaws into clear risk recommendations • Framework Alignment: Ensuring applications comply with PCI-DSS, NIST, and OWASP standards without creating operational friction for developers What you'll bring • Experience: 6+ years in InfoSec, cybersecurity advisory, or application security • Tech Depth: Solid grasp of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, Jenkins) • Stakeholder Influence: The ability to explain technical risk to product managers and challenge engineering decisions constructively • Certifications: Holding or actively working towards industry standards like CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, or Cloud Security Architect certs Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates