Security Engineer

Ometria; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Security Engineer, where you will safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance with security standards. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to implement security best practices while driving innovation in a fast-paced environment. Your expertise in AWS and security protocols will be crucial in reducing risks and enhancing the company's resilience. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a company that values inclusivity and diversity, and is committed to the growth of its team members.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AWS cloud environments.
• Proficient in security and privacy best practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage security alerts and respond to incidents effectively.
• Ensure security measures are integrated into all projects.

Skills

AWS

Security Best Practices

Incident Response

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

3+ years in Security Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Job description

We are looking for a Security Engineer. You'll be directly responsible for safeguarding Ometria's digital assets by actively managing risks to maintain a secure and resilient environment. You will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to ensure that security and privacy best practices are followed whilst finding solutions to meet our business goals.

Who are we?

Ometria is a Customer Data and Experience Platform built for retail marketers to be the fastest route to sustainable growth. Ometria helps marketers plan and launch their most profitable campaigns twice as fast, increasing their customer loyalty and CRM revenue with personalized marketing messages all throughout the customer journey.

Our platform combines the data unification and customer insight of a CDP with an experience platform, letting retail marketers easily and efficiently create experiences their customers love across email, mobile, on-site, social, direct mail and more.

Ometria is trusted by some of the fastest growing retail brands in the world such as Brooklinen, Davines, Steve Madden, and Sephora.

We have a team of over 120 Ometrians based in North America and Europe. We have raised $75m from leading venture capital funds across the world such as Infravia Capital Partners, Octopus Ventures, Summit Action, Sonae IM and many others.

What you'll be doing:

Key Outcomes:

1. Work with the security, legal and people teams to pass the annual ISO 27001 and 27701 audit to reduce the likelihood / impact of incidents and to demonstrate the 'respect for the trust we've been given' as a business.
2. Identify opportunities to upskill and educate on security and privacy best practices eg. present on tech strategy/tech session/all hands.
3. Ensure privacy and security measures are integrated into all projects to reduce risk and minimise the chance of incidents.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Responding to alerts and security and privacy risk events:
   • Alert triage
   • Identification and assessment of risks
   • Following security and privacy playbooks for any incidents
   • Writing incident reports
2. Building and maintaining expertise in security and privacy through learning and certifications.
3. Sharing expertise with colleagues by:
   • Advising on project risk reduction through security and privacy by design practices.
   • Helping with vulnerability triage and recommending appropriate fixes or mitigations.
   • Recommending improvements to policies and processes of the company.
4. Building trust in the company through participation in ISO 27001 and 27701 audits, working with penetration testers and external security researchers, and input into sales questionnaires and client vendor security reviews.

About you:

1. Experienced - You will have previously worked for 3+ years developing in / administering an AWS cloud environment and can make improvements to AWS configurations. Prior experience using terraform would be an advantage.
2. Curious - you are excited about technology and like learning new things. You take proactive steps to educate yourself on what's happening in the security and privacy industry, and how this can better inform our internal practices.
3. Accountability - You work with a level of independence on tasks / projects that you are assigned and are able to identify challenges to minimise delay or impact. You work diligently to finish your work within agreed deadlines.
4. Analytical skill - You utilise evidence and data to methodically make informed decisions and are comfortable analysing large amounts of data. You are able to critically consider projects and identify security and privacy risks.
5. Business Focus - Ability to identify risk whilst pragmatically considering the commercial impact and necessary actions.
6. Confident communicator - You contribute to Engineering scoping discussions and are confident giving constructive feedback and challenging ideas with a wide variety of stakeholders. You feel comfortable presenting best practice updates and training to internal audiences.

The amazing people of Ometria are the core of our business. We believe in making it awesome to be here for all Ometrians and place a continued focus on making Ometria an inclusive, respectful and diverse environment.

We're an equal opportunity employer and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.