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SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and Mauritius. Our goal? We bring people solutions to life and turn HR into a value source for our clients and their people. Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from salary payment to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent. Are you ready to join us? About the role: As Security Engineer, you play a critical role in safeguarding SD Worx Group’s IT landscape and enabling business objectives through robust, future‑proof security capabilities. You ensure that security controls across infrastructure, cloud and workplace environments are not only effective, but continuously adapted to evolving threats, technologies and organisational priorities. You take end‑to‑end accountability for the implementation, effectiveness and continuous improvement of security controls, applied policies and standards across the Group. Beyond operational excellence, you actively challenge and improve cross‑functional security processes, contribute to the definition of new ways of working, and influence security priorities that impact SD Worx goals. Operating at the heart of the Security Operations and Engineering capability, you combine deep technical expertise with strong analytical, advisory and coaching skills. You proactively capture new security evolutions, translate them into actionable improvements, and embed them into the wider IT and business ecosystem spanning more than 26 countries. You play a key role in advancing SD Worx’ vulnerability management capability by evolving it from tool‑driven scanning to a risk‑contextual, intelligence‑led discipline that aligns technical exposure with business impact and threat actor behaviour. Which tasks can you expect? Security Engineering & Operational Excellence Lead advanced security reviews, threat analysis and risk assessments across infrastructure, cloud and workplace platforms, translating findings into concrete improvements. Design and improve security monitoring, detection and response capabilities, including metrics that demonstrate control effectiveness and risk reduction to senior stakeholders. Drive improvements to security infrastructure and configurations (e.g. Identity & Access Management, system hardening, SIEM, IDS/IPS/XDR), challenging existing standards and proposing new controls where needed (CIS benchmarking knowledge strongly valued). Oversee and continuously improve vulnerability management, patching and secure configuration processes, ensuring timely risk mitigation across the estate. This includes prioritizing vulnerabilities based on exploitability, exposure, attacker intent and business criticality rather than severity alone, enabling informed and outcome‑driven remediation decisions. Perform complex incident response and forensic investigations, coordinating with cross‑functional teams, capturing lessons learned and embedding structural improvements to prevent recurrence. Participate in a compensated on‑call rotation, providing 2nd or 3rd line escalation support when required. Process & Cross‑Functional Impact Rethink and optimize end‑to‑end security processes across IT domains, value chains and external partners, setting or revising roles, responsibilities and operational agreements. Ensure Group‑wide security policies, standards and frameworks (ISO, CIS, SD Worx policies) remain relevant, are effectively implemented, and align with both regulatory and business needs. Influence and advise platform, cloud, workplace and application teams on secure‑by‑design principles, architectural decisions and risk‑based trade‑offs. Contribute to organizational security maturity by defining standard operating procedures, SOC playbooks and scalable engineering practices. Outside‑In Thinking, Innovation & Advisory Proactivel