Senior Application Security Specialist Job Description: As our Senior Security Specialist, you will have full responsibility for overseeing information security across a group of Sage products, applications, and systems. This involves working closely with Live Service Management, IT Operations, and Product Engineering teams. Your role will include identifying opportunities to enhance security practices and developing plans to implement these improvements. You'll also be responsible for continuously monitoring security measures to ensure they are effective and meet the highest standards. This will be a hybrid position, 3-days in our Madrid office. Key Responsibilities: What You Will Do: You will work in integrating security into the software development lifecycle, particularly with public cloud-based SaaS applications. Strong communication and influencing skills are essential, along with proficiency in English, both spoken and written. Hands-on experience in both security operations and implementing security in development is crucial. Understanding the challenges of information security in an agile or DevOps environment is also important. Ideally, you will have experience with formal compliance frameworks like SOC, ISO27001, or PCI, and experience securing public cloud-based online products. What We Need From You: • Significant experience in integrating security into the software development lifecycle. • Expertise in securing public cloud-based SaaS applications. • Proficiency in English, both verbal and written. • Strong communication and influencing skills. • Hands-on experience in security operations and implementation. • Understanding of information security challenges in agile or DevOps environments. • Familiarity with formal compliance frameworks such as SOC, ISO27001, or PCI (preferred). • Experience securing public cloud-based online products (preferred). How We Measure Your Success: At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well-being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance: Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on health insurance, meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training. Well-being: Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counselling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self-care and parenting resources through the Cleo app. Flexible working: flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program. Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering, and 5 additional paid days annually for personal or professional development. Extended leave: 7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service. Financial support: Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to 3.5 times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate. Health and Safety Responsibilities Fostering the safety culture, by leading with your own example. Following established safety procedures and reporting potential hazards promptly helps maintain a secure and efficient workplace. Participating in safety training sessions and adhering to preventive guidelines and procedures, the objective is minimizing risks and protecting yourself and the rest of your colleagues. #LI-WM1 #LI-Hybrid Function: Global Information Security Country: Spain Office Location: Madrid Work Place type: Hybrid Advert Working at Sage means you’re supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best. It’s why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential. 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