Senior Security Product Engineer

Sainsbury's; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail chain is seeking a Senior Security Product Engineer in Coventry. This role involves safeguarding digital assets and requires a deep knowledge of network security, email security, and collaboration across teams. An ideal candidate will have significant experience in security technologies, contributing to a culture of innovation and integrity.

Benefits

Colleague Discount

Generous Holiday Allowance

Performance-based Bonus Scheme

Access to Special Offers

Private Healthcare

Annual Holiday Allowance

Pensions Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in network and information security.
• Strong track record in securing digital assets with an analytical mindset.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage network security solutions including firewalls and load-balancers.
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure secure product delivery.
• Act as a subject matter expert in SASE technologies.

Skills

Network Security

Email Security

Web Security

Analytical Skills

Collaboration

Education

Higher-level qualifications in Information Security (CISSP, CompTIA Security+, CCNA/CCNP)

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Sainsbury's

Location:

Coventry, United Kingdom

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Posted:

25.06.2025

Expiry Date:

09.08.2025

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Job Description:

Senior Security Product Engineer

Are you passionate about information security? Do you thrive on working with cutting-edge technologies to safeguard critical systems? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

At our 150-year-old retail chain, we’re on a transformative journey. We view security as an enabler, empowering our teams to innovate while maintaining robust protection for our digital assets. As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in this mission.

Key Responsibilities:

• Network Security: Demonstrate detailed knowledge of security products, including firewalls, load-balancers, ACLs, TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, switching, DHCP, DNS, NAT, IP addressing, Web Application Firewalls, access control, Design and implement network segmentation strategies to isolate sensitive data and systems
• Email Security: Implement and manage email security gateways to protect against phishing, spam, and other email-borne threats.
• Web Security: Expertise in web security products such as Netskope, Secure Web Gateways (SWG), and Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB).
• SASE Technologies: Act as a subject matter expert on SASE technologies and Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN).
• Cryptographic Technologies: Apply experience in PKI, Post Quantum Cryptography, Certificate Life Cycle Management, IoT, and hardware security.
• Design and Implementation: Take ownership of the design, architecture, and implementation of security solutions.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with IT, product teams, and end users to support infrastructure and network security.
• Communication: Exhibit excellent communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex issues and findings clearly and effectively.
• Stakeholder Collaboration:Engage with our InfoSec Security Operations Centre, Security Analysts, and Product Managers to ensure secure product delivery, safeguarding both colleague and customer data.
• Analytical Skills: Proactively identify and resolve potential security risks with an analytical mindset.
• Agile Mindset and Information Security Knowledge:Deliver backlog items, provide updates, and provide technical advice to the team, cloud architectures, and system administration, with familiarity in security principles and a willingness to learn new technologies.

Qualifications:

• Hold or be working towards higher-level qualifications in Information Security (., CISSP, CompTIA Security+, CCNA/CCNP).
• Experience: Minimum 6 years of experience in a similar role, demonstrating a strong track record in network and information security.

Company Culture:

We pride ourselves on fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment where innovation thrives. Our values are rooted in integrity, respect, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We believe in empowering our employees to take ownership of their work and contribute to our collective success.

Impact and Growth Opportunities:

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will directly contribute to our mission of safeguarding our digital assets and ensuring the security of our customers’ data. This role offers significant growth opportunities, including potential career advancement within our expanding security team and the chance to work on high-impact projects that shape the future of our company.

What We Offer:

• Colleague Discount: Enjoy discounts across our multi-brands: Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat.
• Holiday Allowance: Generous holiday allowance to ensure work-life balance.
• Bonus Scheme: Performance-based bonus scheme.
• Special Offers: Access to special offers on holidays, retail vouchers, and more.

We value work-life balance, offering flexibility in how, where, and when you work. Join us on this exciting journey, where your expertise will shape our secure future.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).