Staff Security Engineer (2 Positions Available)

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Role OVO-View Team: Info Sec & Cyber Sec Location: Hub Based - Hybrid for all Salary banding: £80,000 - £100,000 Experience: Expert Working pattern: Full-Time Reporting to: Delivery & Growth Lead Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. This role in 3 words: Reducing Technology Risk Top 3 qualities for this role: Passionate, Collaborative, Detailed Where you'll work: 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 we're hiring puts people at the heart of our security strategy and uses technology and operational processes to build a resilient and performant business. The Path to Zero is paved with secure technologies and operations! This role in a nutshell: Our people depend on us to deliver a rich, safe digital experience that is also a hard target for cyber threats. OVO has scaled rapidly in recent years - our processes and platforms need to meet and exceed those scaled demands. You'll lead projects to implement controls and automate remediation activities in response to persistent security problems. You'll be given challenging tasks, and you will take ownership and responsibility for driving them forwards. Your key outcomes will be: Enhancing the security posture of OVO systems across cloud and code by security control implementation, monitoring and management. Utilising security tooling and processes to reduce organisational risks and improve compliance to security best practice and widely recognised standards. Working collaboratively with other teams to proactively assist in identification, remediation, and response to security issues and gaps. Systems: Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz) Application Security Posture Management (Wiz Code) Web Application Firewall and related technologies (Cloudflare) GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management Threat Modelling Issue and Project Tracking (Jira) Attack Surface Management scanning You'll be a successful Staff Security Engineer at OVO if you are... A creator: You're a hands-on Staff Engineer who takes a user-centered design approach to build and administer automated security verification workflows; you lead by example, leveraging APIs and security tooling to detect misconfigurations, identify owners and build guardrails. 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. A communicator and coach: you are committed to ongoing personal and team development, for example evangelising a secure and safe digital experience with clear and direct written and verbal communication. You will be able to take technical concepts and reframe them so that different audiences can understand them. Let's talk about what's in it for you: We'll pay you between £80,000 - £100,000 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 health With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private me

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