Lead Application Security/DevSecOps Engineer

Faria is a leader in international education systems & services, offering an integrated suite across learning, admissions, school-to-home, and online courses — trusted by10,000+ schools and 4 million students across 155 countries.

Our product family includesManageBac(curriculum, assessment & reporting for international schools),OpenApply(admissions management & CRM, used by 600+ leading international and independent schools),SchoolsBuddy(co-curricular & activity management), andVectare(school transport management).

We are looking for a Lead Security/DevSecOps Engineer on the Product Engineering team, with a great opportunity to be self-directed and level up security practices and capabilities. We expect this to be a hands-on leadership role with a potential opportunity to build/upskill a small team.

The person will report to the VP of Engineering and work in partnership with the vCISO, DevOps team, and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Do an initial deep-dive assessment and evaluation to drive risk-based prioritisation of the following responsibilities Stand up and own the application security program across all five products — this is effectively greenfield.

Define and embed a secure SDLC (shift-left): security requirements, design reviews, guardrails, and coding standards for an AI engineering reality. Select, deploy, and operationalise AppSec tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA/dependency and secrets scanning) integrated into CI/CD.

Implement and operationalise secrets management: detection, rotation, and vault integration across CI/CD pipelines. Build risk-based vulnerability management: triage, prioritise, and drive remediation across teams and stacks.

Lead remediation of some vulnerabilities as necessary in support of the software engineering team Run threat modeling and security reviews for new architecture and significant features. Improve cloud security posture across AWS (primary) and Azure, partnering with platform/infra. Lead technical incident response for a