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Security Engineering Manager

Tesco
Greater London
9 months ago
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Security Engineering Manager (Detection Engineering)

As a Security Engineering Manager, you will lead a squad within Detection Engineering, focusing on management, leadership, and delivering cyber defensive outcomes at Tesco. Your primary responsibility is to guide a team of security engineers in developing and implementing security controls that bolster our cyber defence to detect and support response to digital threats, while supporting and integrating with other teams across prevention, operations, and automation.

Your team specializes in Microsoft related security technologies, but also works closely with other technologies from Splunk, Databricks, and those related to deception operations.

Your objective is to safeguard our customers, suppliers, colleagues, networks, systems, applications, and information from cyber-attacks.

You will excel in enhancing security outcomes efficiently and cost-effectively, working with teams that possess a diverse range of skills, from hands-on technical expertise to architectural knowledge. Fostering a culture of innovation and curiosity within your team is essential to this role.

In this role, I am accountable for:

  1. Threat-Led Prioritisation:Evaluates and prioritizes cyber threats to Tesco, analysing machine signals and intelligence and human factors to identify trends and actionable data for threat management.
  2. Secure & Test-Driven Engineering:Proficient in applying industry frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, etc), integrating security into the software development lifecycle by applying secure coding practices, utilizing test-driven development (TDD) for code reliability, and conducting thorough code reviews to mitigate potential security vulnerabilities.
  3. Intrusion Detection & Analysis:Define and drive procedures to identify detection opportunities, assess risk reduction, and ensure mature detection outcomes, reporting detection quality, coverage and cost where required.
  4. Incident Management, Incident Investigation & Response:Coordination with security operations teams to support incident management, investigation and response activities when required.
  5. Research:Defines research goals, generates innovative ideas, summarizes and disseminates findings, and contributes to organizational security strategy.
  6. Enterprise Technology:Understands Enterprise technology infrastructure, systems, solutions, tools and architecture, including the importance and principles of security, managing incidents, and programming languages.
  7. Development Lifecycle:Understands the end-to-end software development lifecycle, and the processes and checkpoints involved, from planning, designing, building, testing, deploying and maintenance and how this applies to their role.
  8. Delivery Methodologies:Understanding of Agile and other methodologies, including product management frameworks, and of the full product management lifecycle and how different Agile practices can be used.

Relevant Operational skills required:

  • Management & Leadership:Effectively manages people, including performance and incentive management, and applies leadership practices to achieve targets and foster an inclusive environment where people feel like they belong.
  • Communication & Influencing:Identifying and engaging stakeholders, using a range of techniques (e.g. storytelling, presentations, reports, influencing, negotiation and difficult conversations).
  • Data Analytics & Insights:Defining suitable metrics, obtaining and analysing data using the right tools, spotting trends and gaining and explaining insights to influence and enable decisions and measure impact.
  • Curiosity & Learning:Reflecting on practice, adapting and challenging assumptions, seeking new ideas and perspectives, and striving to gain new skills and knowledge.
  • Embracing & Enabling Change:Need, appetite and potential impacts of change, including embracing the opportunities and challenges of change.
  • Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving:Strategic and critical thinking to identify problems and how to apply chosen methodologies to solve problems and create value for the business.
  • Finance & Procurement:Finance and procurement processes, and budget management, including estimation, forecasting, planning and tracking spending.
  • Direct Line Management Responsibilities
  • Agile Ways of Working (Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, etc)
  • Security Engineering Experience (Detection, Prevention, Automation, etc)
  • Common Productivity Tools (Confluence, Miro, Teams, etc)
  • Cybersecurity Engineering Management or Leadership
  • Microsoft Defender for Endpoint/Identity/Cloud
  • Microsoft Sentinel / Splunk Enterprise Security
  • Security Certification (ISC2, ISACA, CompTIA, SANS, EC-Council, etc)
  • Detection-as-Code / DevOps for SecOps

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Industries: Retail and Technology, Information and Media

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