Chief of Observability & Security Engineering

Co-op; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Company car / car allowance

Annual bonus

Onsite gym access

Job summary

Co-op is seeking a Head of Observability & Security Engineering in Manchester. You will lead the design, build and operation of observability, security, identity and automation capabilities to provide a complete real-time view of our technology estate.

This key leadership role shapes monitoring, security and automation across a large, complex environment, driving proactive, intelligence-led capabilities and modernising tooling to support business transformation.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in platform, security or engineering roles within a complex environment.
• Deep observability knowledge across logging, metrics and telemetry.
• Experience delivering large-scale platforms like CMDB or ITSM.
• Strong security and identity engineering background in cloud environments.
• Proven ability to automate and integrate systems at scale.
• Familiarity with security and resilience frameworks (NIST, Zero Trust).
• Ability to influence across technical and business teams with clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and delivery of observability, security engineering and platform tooling.
• Design enterprise observability across cloud, on-prem and SaaS environments.
• Oversee CMDB development and ITSM integration for better visibility.
• Drive automation and self-healing operations to boost reliability.
• Lead identity and access management engineering including cloud identity.
• Ensure security logging supports threat detection and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with teams to embed secure, resilient engineering in programmes.
• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team with strong practices.

Skills

Leadership

Observability

Security engineering

Platform engineering

Cloud identity

Automation

Zero Trust

NIST

Stakeholder management

Job description

Co-op is seeking a Head of Observability & Security Engineering in Manchester. You will lead the design, build and operation of observability, security, identity and automation capabilities to provide a complete real-time view of our technology estate.

This key leadership role shapes monitoring, security and automation across a large, complex environment, driving proactive, intelligence-led capabilities and modernising tooling to support business transformation.