Overview
Octopus Energy started with a bold idea: to build Britain’s first truly digital energy supplier. By combining world-class tech with brilliant humans who care deeply about customers and driving the renewable energy transition, we became Britain’s largest energy supplier. We’re scaling fast and building the next generation of products to accelerate the green energy transition, from making it effortless to switch to heat pumps, solar and EVs, to launching smart tariffs and creating renewable generation at scale. We’re also enabling our global businesses to roll out learnings, products and experiences that customers love here worldwide.
At Octopus Tech, you’ll have real ownership, variety, and the chance to shape products that make a tangible difference in people’s lives – lowering bills, enabling greener living, and delivering experiences customers genuinely love. You’ll work side by side with teams across marketing, operations, and data, and see the impact of your work in the real world, fast.
We are expanding our Cyber and Information Security team at Octopus Energy. We are looking for an ambitious, knowledgeable, and experienced Lead Security Engineer to join our team, to grow with the rest of the company, and ensure we continue to do so in a secure and safe way.
You will be a key partner in defining what Security is at Octopus. We will be shaping this team to provide a world class support service to our employees, building our way out of problems with engineering firepower and undertaking transformational organisational change.
You’ll play a crucial role in helping to secure our software development processes, securing our platform services, integrating security practices, and shaping a culture of security. This is a creative, and collaborative position that is a full-time member of a Cloud-First organisation. If you’re passionate about Cloud technologies and driving security by design, we encourage you to apply!
Specifically, we are looking for a Lead Security Engineer with at least 5 years of relevant experience. You will lead a team of up to ~6 people and help shape the technical direction of the security engineering function. There will be time within the role for hands-on engineering work.
If this sounds exciting, we’d love to chat.
What you’ll do
- Have ownership of a functional team within the Cyber Security Team, working closely with the Head of Cyber Security to define strategic objectives and team direction
- Manage team priorities and ensure initiatives are completed within deadlines
- Collaborate regularly and effectively with the rest of the Cyber Security and Information Security Teams to deliver outcomes
- Lead delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines
- Build a strong culture of open communication where teammates can ask questions without fear, promoting a positive and inclusive team environment
- Line-manage a team of Security Engineers in the same or similar timezone
- Set performance expectations and goals for team members
- Regularly review individual and team performance, offering actionable insights and constructive feedback to support and grow team members
- Support team delivery for example through code reviews, technology research or architectural guidance
- Provide support for production systems owned by your team
- Support the implementation of security processes and requirements
- Stay abreast of emerging security threats, technologies, and industry trends to continuously enhance the organisation’s security strategy
What you’ll have
- Proven experience in a leadership role within Security Engineering or closely related field
- Strong background in Security Engineering with a deep understanding of security best practices and standards
- Excellent communication, with a focus on doing this asynchronously
- Experience of mentoring and coaching a team to perform at a high-level of quality
- Experience of incident management
Previous experience working in engineering teams focused on one or more of the following areas
- Application Security – including web application security concepts, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools
- Cloud Security – including good AWS experience (or knowledge) and familiarity with various AWS security services (or familiarity with Azure and/or GCP with a willingness to learn AWS) and cloud security tooling
- Experience in SaaS and/or End-User Device Security – including security posture management tooling and end-user device security tooling such as EDR and ZTNA
Ideally, you will have experience in one or more of the areas mentioned (or others), but we’re not expecting you to be an expert in all areas of security engineering!
What will help
- Security certifications (any of the famous abbreviations)
- Certifications from cloud providers’ certification paths
- Security qualifications (e.g. apprenticeships or degrees)
- Strong skills in creating high-quality, comprehensive security documentation
- Familiarity with AWS services and experience in managing cloud security services
- Familiarity using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to manage security tooling and services
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling and security best practices
- Familiarity with vulnerability management processes and automations
- Experience using logging and monitoring tools to generate alerts and reports
- Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
Why else you’ll love it here
- Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it’s something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. We don’t advertise because we have flexibility and want to find the right octofit.
- Octopus Energy Group has a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. People work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We were voted best company to work for in 2022 and top 10 companies for senior leadership.
- Visit our UK perks hub – Octopus Employee Benefits
We offer flexible hybrid working. Don’t let location discourage you from applying if you can’t make it to an office!
Got any burning questions before then? Drop us a message at talent@octoenergy.com and we’d love to help!
If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you….