Security Analyst Placement Programme

Motability Operations Limited; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Motability Operations Limited is offering a 12-month cyber security placement based in Bristol. You will explore various security areas while learning from experienced professionals and building practical skills alongside our Security teams.

We’re looking for curious, eager to learn and collaborative students in their second year, ready to start in July 2027, with a commitment to be in Bristol three days a week and occasional travel to London.

Qualifications

• Studying in the second year of your cyber or technical degree that includes a year in industry, and eager to start a placement in July 2027
• Excited to join Bristol office at least three days a week, with occasional travel to London

Responsibilities

• You will explore multiple security areas while learning from experienced professionals
• Support Security teams with project work and daily tasks to gain practical experience
• Contribute to security projects and improvement activities to develop your skills

Skills

Curious

Eager to learn

Collaborative

Education

Second year cyber or technical degree with year in industry

Job description

About The Role

Ready to start your career in cyber security and discover where it could take you?
There’s a lot more to cyber security than one role. Over 12 months, you’ll get to experience different roles across our Security team and discover the areas that interest you most.
You’ll work alongside experienced security professionals, build new skills and see different types of security work in action. And you do not need to know where you want your career to go before you start.
This is your opportunity to explore, learn and start discovering the career path that could be right for you.
Here are some of the areas you could work in:

• Application Security: Learn how we build security into applications, including vulnerability management, penetration testing, threat modelling and security reviews.
• Cloud Security: Gain experience of how we protect cloud environments, identify security weaknesses and help teams apply appropriate security controls.
• Identity & Access Management: Learn how we manage identities and access to systems, including access reviews, privileged access and the principles of giving people the right access at the right time.
  Security Operations: See how we identify, investigate and respond to security threats and incidents, working alongside our Security Operations team and security partners.
• IT Continuity: Learn how we prepare for major technology incidents, including business continuity, disaster recovery and exercises that test how effectively we can recover.
• Vulnerability Management: Help identify and track security vulnerabilities, understand the risks they present and work with teams as they are addressed.
• Threat Modelling & Security Testing: Support security specialists in understanding what could go wrong with new systems and services and how those risks can be reduced.
• Risk & Governance: Learn how security risks are identified, recorded and communicated, and how policies and standards help us manage security consistently.
• Projects & Improvement: Contribute to security projects and improvement activities, bringing your own ideas and learning how security changes are delivered in a large organisation.

Our 12-month placement programme is built on three key pillars:

Making an Impact, Personal Development and the Project.

Making an Impact – get involved in meaningful work that adds real value from day one. You’ll support your team’s goals and help deliver work that makes a difference – for your team, and for the people we do it all for: our customers.

Personal Development – build your confidence and skills through mentoring, learning sessions and events – all designed to support your growth and goals.

The Project – work with other students to lead a project that creates real, positive impact. Our programmes go above and beyond just the day job. You’ll gain valuable experience in your chosen business area while also having the space and opportunity to challenge yourself and develop your skills.

Motability Operations is a Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, any applicant considered to have a disability who meets the minimum criteria as set out in the role profile, will be offered an interview.

We also have a responsibility to actively seek out and attract disabled candidates by providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

This involves flexibility and adjusting as required when assessing candidates to ensure those with a disability have the best possible chance of demonstrating their suitability for the job.

About You

We’re looking for someone who’s curious about cyber security, enjoys solving problems and, above all, wants to learn.
You do not need to arrive knowing everything. This placement gives you the opportunity to build your knowledge, develop new skills and gain practical experience alongside our Security teams.
We are looking for:
Curious - You’re interested in how technology works, what can go wrong and how organisations can protect themselves. You’re keen to explore different areas, learn about new technologies and understand new security challenges
Eager to learn - You want to build your cyber security knowledge and enjoy working through problems and analysing information. You’re comfortable asking questions and using what you learn to make informed decisions
Collaborative - You enjoy working with people from technical and non-technical backgrounds. You listen to different perspectives, share your own ideas and help create an inclusive team

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone with a genuine interest in cyber security and the enthusiasm to learn, explore and get involved. We’ll give you the support and experience to build your skills and discover where your interests could take you.

Minimum criteria

• Studying in the second year of your cyber or technicaldegree that includes a year in industry, and eager to start a placement in July 2027
• Excited to join us in our Bristol office at least three days a week, with occasional travel to London

Recruitment Stages

1) Application Stage -Submit your CV -Response to four questions

2) Video Assessment -One way video assessment -You will answer 5 questions by video response -You are given 6 days to complete your video assessment from when you receive your invitation

3) Virtual Interview -You will meet with one of our Early Careers Recruitment team -These interviews aim to take place between 12th to 13th November 2026

4) Assessment Centre -You will be invited to attend a final stage assessment centre, which typically involves an interview with the two assessors and an activity -The assessment centre is a whole day with us in our Bristol office -The assessment centre for this role is 4th December 2026 If you are successful at the Assessment Centre stage, you will be offered the role to begin Monday 5th July 2027.

About The Company

About us We’re the company behind the Motability Scheme. We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast-changing world. We’re the UK’s largest car leasing company and we help over 900,000 people get on the road. We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.

What we do We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive of one of the Government’s qualifying mobility allowances. Our customers choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV), scooter or powered wheelchair that best suits their needs. We take care of their insurance, breakdown, servicing and more, as part of our worry-free package. At the end of the lease, our customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand-new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars. This makes us the largest supplier of single-source vehicles back into the used car market. The Scheme has been providing affordable, all-inclusive motoring for over 45 years. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, with an independent customer satisfaction rating of 9.4 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.