Role:OVO-view
Duration:12 month FTC
Team:Security Engineering (Information Security Office)
Salary banding:£77,630 – £95,000
Experience:Expert
Working pattern:Full-Time
Reporting to:Senior Security Engineering Manager
Sponsorship:Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Top 3 qualities for this role:Collaborative, Integrity and Problem-Solving Oriented
Where you’ll work:At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility. All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.
This role in a nutshell: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.
Your key outcomes will be:
- An engineer with a growth mindset who seeks to broaden your soft and technology skills.
- Passionate about developing products that will positively impact our mission to deliver Plan Zero.
- Love working in teams collaborating and knowledge sharing to build features that impact customers.
- Motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement.
- Value test automation as a key part of your role as a software engineer.
- 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:
- Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz).
- Application Security Posture Management (JIT).
- Web Application Firewall and related technologies (Cloudflare).
- GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring.
- SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management.
- Identity and Access Management and Privileged Access Management platforms.
- Zero Trust Network Access Solutions.
- Endpoint, Cloud and Identity Detection and Response.
- Issue and Project Tracking (Jira).
- Cyber Asset and Attack Surface Management.
- Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning.
You’ll be a successful Security Engineer 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.
- 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 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.
Let’s talk about what’s in it for you:We’ll pay you between £77,630 – £95,000, depending on your specific skills and experience. 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.
Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:
- 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
- Healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.
- Gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more.
- Extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations.
- Up to £400 off any OVO Energy plan, plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargers.
- 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.
For your Belonging: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.
We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!
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