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Senior Security Engineer - Security Automation

Tesco

Welwyn Garden City

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GBP 70,000 - 90,000

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4 days ago

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Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for their cyber security team. The role involves enhancing security automation, responding to threats, and collaborating across teams. Ideal candidates are self-motivated with extensive experience in security orchestration, particularly using Python and REST APIs.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day

Private medical insurance

Free 24/7 virtual GP service

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Qualifications

2+ years hands-on experience using Python for development.
Proven hands-on experience with SOAR platforms.
Understanding of REST APIs.

Responsibilities

Define, implement, and enhance capabilities to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats.
Design and implement automated security processes.
Drive the security automation roadmap.

Skills

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)

Python

REST APIs

MITRE ATT&CK framework

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Our cyber security team are the eyes and ears of our organisation. We use pioneering technology to increase visibility and protection of systems, services, and data. To do this we need to stay ahead of the latest threats and continuously improve our tooling, techniques, and processes.

We’re continually working to step change security capability to further improve the protection and controls that we offer for our customers and colleagues across the UK, Europe, and Asia, and we’re looking to add phenomenal people to our growing team.

We believe that skilled and passionate people are our greatest asset in reducing risk to our business and customers. We encourage and support continual development and learning and recognise the importance of keeping up with changes in technology and an evolving threat landscape.

About the role

About the Cyber Security Team

You will be responsible for

As a Security Engineer, you will use your knowledge and
expertise to play a key role in defining, implementing, and enhancing
capabilities to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats and incidents.
You will enable a faster and more effective response by designing and
implementing automated security processes.

We’re continually working to step change security capability
to further improve the protection and controls that we offer for our customers
and colleagues across the UK, Europe, and Asia, and we’re looking to add
phenomenal people to our growing team.

We believe that skilled and passionate people are our
greatest asset in reducing risk to our business and customers. We encourage and
support continual development and learning and recognise the importance of
keeping up with changes in technology and an evolving threat landscape.

Defining, designing, and implementing
security automations to enhance the capability to detect, prevent and respond
to security threats and incidents by enabling a faster and more effective
response.
Drive the security automation roadmap based
on team feedback and through your own research, testing and development.
Work across multiple teams with analysts and
engineers to improve workflows, enabling our colleagues to spend their time
doing what they do best.
Design and develop security automations
across SOAR platform and other security products and tooling.
party tooling using REST APIs and Python development
Work with existing security automation and
platform engineers to improve upon existing playbooks and automations to ensure
optimal platform performance.
Developing and running security processes
day-to-day for the Tesco Group

You will need

You will be s elf-motivated and ambitious with an
ability to work in an Agile and fast-paced environment .

Flexibility, responsiveness, creativity and a passion for their
work would be ideal as you will thrive in our culture.

Y ou will possess the ability to build solid working relationships with
peers and senior leaders across
the business

When working in cross functional
tasks you will have the a bility to
demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all
levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

Technical Skills:

Proven
hands-on experience with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
platforms.
2+
years of proven hands-on experience using Python for development.
Understanding
of REST APIs and demonstrate ability to interact with 3rd party REST APIs.
Understanding
of the MITRE ATT&CK framework (or equivalent) and emerging threat actor tactics, techniques, and
procedures.

Soft Skills:

Demonstrable
curiosity, passion, and proactive attitude to security and personal
development.
Good
interpersonal skills, and written and oral communications, self-motivator.
Great
teammate and independent worker, relationship builder.
Ability
to collaborate closely with domain experts, key customers, and colleagues at
all levels.

Desirable Certifications: Ideally one or
more relevant certifications, such as: SANS SEC573, SEC598, SEC673

Whats in it for you?

We’re all about the
little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package
takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus
scheme of up to 20% of base salary

• Holiday starting
at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)

• Private medical
insurance

• 26 weeks
maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by
13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4
weeks fully paid paternity leave

• Free 24/7 virtual
GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free
access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every
customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move.
Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little
better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with
our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for
all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly
feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but
recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a
workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are
given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability
Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and
accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility
support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business
and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns
across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that
works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Retail

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