Senior Security Engineer

OVO
Glasgow, UK
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£52,800.0 - £76,038.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Software Applications JIRA Automation of Tests Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Security Cloud Engineering Code Review Cyber Security
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Information Security Management Secure Coding User-Centered Design Google Cloud Data Analytics Vulnerability Analysis

Job description

As an application security specialist, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the security of software applications. You will work closely with development teams to develop and implement secure coding practices and guidelines. You will also conduct security assessments to identify vulnerabilities in existing applications and recommend mitigations. Additionally, you will perform code reviews to ensure that new code adheres to security best practices., * GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring.

  • SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management.
  • Endpoint, Cloud and Identity Detection and Response.
  • Threat Modelling.
  • Issue and Project Tracking (Jira).
  • Cyber Asset and Attack Surface Management.
  • Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning.

You’ll be a successful Security Engineer here at OVO if you…

  • Are a creator: You’re a hands-on Senior Engineer who takes a user-centered design approach to build and administer automated security verification workflows; you lead by example, leveraging APIs and policy agents to pull and/or aggregate data from various sources, combining sources to enrich and inform GRC.
  • Are a challenger: you embrace failure and do not shy away from difficult conversations in order to drive business and cyber risk strategy and security architecture alignment. You are a champion for clarity about boundaries of responsibility for security work.
  • Are a coach: you inspire your team and provide examples, practical support and approaches to integrate with the business to educate, advise and influence activities with cyber risk implications. You help innovate and instigate change to manage risk.

Requirements

  • You are an engineer with a growth mindset who seeks to broaden your soft and technology skills.
  • You are passionate about developing products that will positively impact our mission to deliver Plan Zero.
  • You love working in teams collaborating and knowledge sharing to build features that impact customers.
  • You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement.
  • You value test automation as a key part of your role as a security engineer.
  • You love building scalable, resilient solutions.

Systems: experience building integrations, workflows, actionable insights and operating models based on the following technologies and platforms would be advantageous (we are not expecting candidates to have experience in all these platforms):

  • Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz).
  • Application Security Posture Management (Wiz Code).

Benefits & conditions

We’ll pay you between £52,800 and £76,038, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We’ll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we’ve put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more For your wellbeingWith gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations For your home Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers For your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

About the company

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person.

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity’s biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That’s why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We’re hiring creators, challengers and coaches. Every role puts people at the heart of our information security strategy and uses technology and operational processes to build a resilient and performant business. The Path to Zero is paved with well-informed risk and reward decisions!, To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It’s up to you.

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