IT Security Engineer
Job description
IT Security Engineer at Wordsmith responsible for building and automating the internal IT platform that provisions, supports and secures every employee, end to end, including onboarding, access, devices and offboarding. The role is hands-on with hardware in the Edinburgh office and focuses on automation over manual tickets.
At a glance
- Work mode
- On-site · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
What you'll do
- Build a joiner pipeline that reads a new hire from Humaans, creates their identity in Okta, assigns app access by group rule, and triggers zero-touch laptop enrolment in Jamf — no manual steps
- Build a Slack assistant, backed by a coding agent, that handles requests like "I need access to X" or "my laptop is slow" and either fixes them or routes them, resolving most without a human
- Build a hardware vending machine for the Edinburgh office that dispenses chargers, dongles, headsets and loan laptops against an employee's identity, with stock reordered automatically
- Write scripts and infrastructure as code that configure devices, enforce security baselines, and produce compliance evidence on their own
- Build an offboarding flow that revokes access everywhere, wipes and reclaims the device, and files the record the moment someone is marked as a leaver
- Own onboarding, access, devices and offboarding as one connected system
- Build tooling — including coding agent workflows — that removes manual steps at every stage
- Be hands-on with the physical side of the job in the Edinburgh office
What we're looking for
- You write real code and automate with APIs and scripts — Python, Bash or TypeScript. This isn't optional.
- You think in systems: identity, access, data flows and lifecycle
- You're comfortable using AI coding agents to build and ship tooling fast
- You care about security and doing things properly, not just quickly
- You're happy working on-site in Edinburgh and hands-on with real hardware
Nice to have
- Exposure to identity and device tooling such as Okta, Google Workspace or Jamf
- Experience with SOC 2 or security compliance
- Having run or automated onboarding, endpoints or internal tools before
Your team
Security
This role is on-site in Edinburgh, reporting into Security — you'll be hands-on with the actual fleet, not just its dashboards.
Benefits
- Real ownership over the platform that runs every Wordsmith employee, from identity to hardware
- Freedom to build over buy — you ship the tooling, not just work the tickets
- We'll teach you the IT and security domain — you bring the instinct to automate
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About Wordsmith
Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams, and we're growing fast.
Wordsmith brings legal work into one system. Requests come in from across the business, AI agents handle the routine, lawyers stay in control where judgment matters, and every step is captured as work happens. We're built for in-house legal, not law firms. Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.
Mission
We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era.
Key facts
- legal operations platform / legal AI
- More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling and Sage, use Wordsmith
- Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe and others
- We're building one of the defining companies in legal AI
Partners & customers
What they value
- Build over buy
- Automate anything you have to do twice
- Build the tool rather than do the task
- High-trust environment
- Light process and a bias toward shipping