Cyber Security Analyst jobs in United Kingdom

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About the role

Join HL and be part of the team, building software for the UK’s largest investment platform. Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) – the UK’s number one platform for private investors, trusted by 1.9 million clients with over £155 billion in savings and investments. For over 40 years, HL has been helping people save and invest for a better future, earning over 200 industry awards, including Best Investment App and Best for Customer Service in 2024. Our solutions are used daily by millions of clients, helping to power the operations of a leading financial institution. Our culture is built on innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement—and we\'re looking for talented engineers to join a team developing products using Java and TypeScript. We are looking for a Software Engineer to help support our dedicated, friendly and growing Trading Team to deliver critical new functionality to our clients and internal users. If you enjoy working with clean architecture, modern technologies, and being part of a supportive team that learns from each other, we’d love to hear from you!

• Build applications with Java and TypeScript and run on AWS or Kubernetes.
• Build infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS services.
• Establish and maintain automated tests for the changes being implemented.
• Write high quality, secure, tested and performant code.
• Work collaboratively with others in a cross functional team to deliver high quality digital client journeys.
• Advocate for continuous improvement within the team including for the ways of working, quality, security, performance and CI/CD processes.
• Responsible for documenting all solutions, produced to agreed team standards.
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and further technologies & techniques embraced by the development team.
• Cultivate strong working relationships both within working squad and in HL as a whole.
• Actively participating in working groups and communities of practice designed to support the development team.
• Continually develop both technical and interpersonal skills.
• Providing engineering support for existing applications when necessary.
• Providing coaching & mentoring to peers.

• Experience of developing and maintaining client and server-side applications.
• Experience of developing and maintaining infrastructure as code.
• Experience of developing using AWS.
• Experience of debugging, root cause analysis and resolution of production issues.
• Experience with unit, integration, and end to end testing tools and practices.
• Experience with integration and onboarding 3rd party vendors, defining integration patterns, abstracting vendor APIs/data models from internal downstream services etc.
• Experience performing code reviews.
• Experience operating within an Agile framework.
• Experience of working in a DevOps culture.

• Excellent knowledge of Java and Spring Framework.
• Working knowledge of TypeScript and React/Node.js.
• Professional experience with AWS (S3, ECS, EKS, SQS, SNS, Lambda) using IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with unit, integration and end-to-end testing tools and practices.
• Understanding of Microservices & principles of RESTful API development, including structuring, documenting, versioning, testing and stubbing/mocking.
• Knowledge of the design and integration patterns.
• Skilled in developing secure and maintainable code.
• Proficient in relational and non-relational database technologies.
• Understanding CI/CD pipelines and Trunk Based Development.
• (Desirable) Knowledge of Kubernetes.

• Excellent collaborator, naturally works well with others across different disciplines in a cross functional team.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal) with good numerical skills.
• Logical, analytical and methodological approach to problem solving.
• Pro-active, resourceful and able to use initiative.
• Pragmatic and focused on delivery.
• Effective time management.
• Willingness to learn and desire to develop professionally.
• Tenacious, with a pride in what you do.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset.
• Always has time for others whilst achieving high quality in own work and will also help other teams.
• Consults with others over large or complex decisions and able to articulately document these.
• Is approachable, friendly, with a consistently positive, constructive attitude whilst performing day-to-day activities.
• Promotes the culture of Hargreaves Lansdown in terms of quality, drive, entrepreneurial activity and commitment to outstanding client service.

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

• Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
• 25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday **
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

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