Senior Threat and Vulnerability Engineer
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Tech stack
Job description
People:
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Demonstrate a growth mindset, actively seeking feedback and opportunities to improve.
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Foster psychological safety by welcoming diverse opinions and contributing respectfully.
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Take ownership of assigned tasks, ensuring proactive communication and follow-through.
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Demonstrate resilience and adaptability when facing challenges.
Product:
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Understand product purpose and customer value, incorporating this understanding into daily work.
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Use threat and vulnerability data to inform technical decisions, strategic direction and remediation
plans.
- Maintain awareness of the commercial and security landscape, ensuring solutions are cost-conscious
and proportionate.
Security & Compliance:
- Leverage external and internal threat intelligence to proactively inform design decisions, incident
response, and remediation planning.
- Translate threat landscape intelligence into actionable plans, ensuring appropriate horizon scanning
aligned with company growth objectives.
- Support and continuously improve Security Incident processes to enable the organisation to respond at
pace.
- Drive improvement in ENSEK's vulnerability management programme and associated processes.
Information Security & Risk Management
- Communicate threats and risks clearly to non-technical stakeholders, enabling streamlined and
prioritised remediation
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Continuously identify evolving threats to the organisation's security perimeter.
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Continuously identify evolving threats to the organisation's security perimeter.
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Assess technical designs using threat modelling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA, DREAD, etc.) to embed
security at the design stage of the Secure Software Delivery Life Cycle.
- Drive ENSEK's Vulnerability Management Assessment processes to meet complex and evolving
regulatory requirements
Requirements
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Ability to interpret complex threat intelligence to disseminate to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Strong commitment to security best practices and alignment with internal policies and regulatory
requirements.
- Proven ability to perform in-depth technical threat and vulnerability assessments across infrastructure and
application code.
Vulnerability Management
- Experience proactively utilising internal tooling and industry knowledge to identify vulnerabilities across
on-premises infrastructure and SaaS offerings.
- Ability to determine and prioritise appropriate remediation pathways for vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and
threats.
- Ownership of end-to-end vulnerability management - from identification through remediation to
eradication.
Threat Intelligence
- Actively collect, interpret, and disseminate relevant threat intelligence in real time.
Benefits & conditions
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Communicate with internal and external stakeholders on threats relevant to ENSEK's environment.
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Upskill the wider team and organisation on evolving threats and assessment methodologies.
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Growth Mindset: Role models continuous learning, embraces feedback, and fosters a culture of
improvement and innovation.
- Ownership: Demonstrates high accountability, sets clear expectations, and creates a safe-to-fail
environment.
- Psychological Safety: Champions inclusivity defines values and practices that promote diversity and sets
goals for diverse teams.
- Challenge & Support: Creates an environment of high support and high challenge, encouraging respectful
debate and broad thinking.
- Resilience: Recognises and removes stressors, role models positivity, and galvanises the organisation
during setbacks. Company Benefits
- 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
- Option to buy or sell 5 extra annual leave days per year
- Vitality Health Insurance, including private healthcare, virtual GP access, mental-health support and wellbeing perks (50% off gym memberships -Virgin Active, Nuffield, PureGym)
- Pension with 5% matched contribution
- Regular team-wide and company-wide events
- 2 volunteering days per year to give back
- Remote-first working environment with offices in London and Nottingham