Information Security Office Consultant

Capital One; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an Information Security Office Consultant to enhance their security posture and collaborate with teams across business units. The role focuses on risk management, security consulting, and fostering a culture of compliance while leveraging cloud technologies. This is a permanent position based in London, promoting a hybrid work model that allows flexibility in office attendance.

Benefits

Pension scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Private medical insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud security, especially AWS.
• Deep understanding of information security and risk management.
• Ability to articulate complex security concepts simply.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate proactive information security consulting across teams.
• Support cyber security risk management and compliance.
• Mentor application owners on security best practices.

Skills

Cloud Security

Risk Management

Communication

Education

Relevant Professional Certifications

Job description

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Posted:

22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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About this role

Security is an integral part of our culture at Capital One. It is essential to maintaining our position as an industry leader, and it is the responsibility of each and every employee to safeguard information, protect it from unauthorised access, and ensure regulatory compliance. Information Security has a significant effect on privacy, consumer confidence, external reputation, and it is a priority on everyone’s agenda.

Capital One's mission is to change banking for good by bringing humanity, ingenuity and simplicity to banking. The successful candidate will join the Information Security Office (ISO) function for the Capital One UK Division.

At Capital One, you will help consult on initiatives, programs, and projects to raise their game in Information Security. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of risk and security, but also willing to know when to pull in experts and escalate. You collaborate and innovate with other teams within Capital One to push the envelope. You are comfortable with Cloud Service technologies like Storage Services, Security & Access Control Management, Container Services, and API Implementation and Management. You are familiar with various Cloud computing models to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS along with their architectural differences.

Security is essential to what we do here, from protecting our customers to our associates.

What you’ll do

The role will involve working across teams within the UK, as well as with our peers in North American business units and teams supporting the company’s global cyber security programme.

Responsibilities:

Act as a central point of contact for your line of business to the rest of Capital One’s Information Security Office Team.

Coordinate and execute proactive Information Security consulting to the business and technology teams covering topics such as, Cloud, Infrastructure Security, Data Security, and User Access Management.

Influence customers via threat modelling to leverage security capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the development processes.

Support the identification, management, prioritisation and reduction of cyber security risk.

Work in an agile environment to deliver secure, robust solutions that meet our business requirements and customer expectations

Coaching and mentoring of application owners, users and delivery teams where required.

Set, articulate and safeguard the bar for appropriate compliance assurance and risk management in language that the business can understand and engage with.

Be a stakeholder for our Cloud Productivity Engineering teams and provide Cyber consultancy on topics such as information architecture and data management.

Become an expert in Capital One’s Information Security capabilities, solutions, policies, procedures and standards.

Escalate and manage cyber security risk

What we’re looking for

Ability to articulate complex details in a simplified, concise manner upwards to senior leadership as well as sideways/downwards with your peers.

Evidence of applying strong critical/analytical thinking and ability challenge the status quo.

Deep understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to drive results toward those objectives.

Ability to engage effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management, IT leaders, and technology vendors.

Deep passion for securing modern computing platforms.

Practical experience and/or certifications with AWS - as cloud is a key part of our work.

Desire to work in a fast moving, forward leaning, and modern computing environment.

Thirst to continually learn about new technologies.

Experience of working well under minimal supervision and effectively navigate through ambiguity.

Clear ability to demonstrate calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and ability to maintain confidentiality.

Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Practical experience in some of the following areas:

Practical hands-on experience in security architecture and consultancy

Experience in a financial or highly regulated environment

Cloud Security - IaaS (AWS), PaaS (Salesforce) & SaaS

Experience implementing security solutions surrounding cloud transformation, data management, data storage

Experience with Threat Modelling using MITRE ATT&CK/STRIDE

Experience with Application Security (OWASP Top 10)

Experience with Software Security Architecture

Experience with integrating SaaS products into an Enterprise Environment

Experience utilising Agile methodologies

PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2

Information Assurance frameworks

Technical risk analysis, assessment and mitigation

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position and can be based in our London or Nottingham Head Offices.

Our hybrid working model offers you the flexibility to work from our offices and from home, when you need to.

We're big on collaboration and connection, and so generally encourage our associates to use our offices on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The number of days you spend in the office will usually be led by the type of work you’re doing, and the hybrid working patterns of the people you partner most closely with.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What’s in it for you

Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates

Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

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