Aareon is Europe’s established provider of SaaS solutions for the real‑estate industry. With its software solutions Aareon connects people, processes, and properties, enabling efficient management of residential and commercial properties and creating digital experiences for all stakeholders.
Salary: £70,000‑£80,000 per year (depending on experience)
Work Location: Hybrid London or Manchester
Hours per week: 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent, full‑time
About the Role
As Aareon UK’s Product division continues to grow, security and data protection grow in importance. The UK Security Officer will own security across the UK business, acting as the UK Information Security Officer, protecting customer data, maintaining compliance and keeping security practical in day‑to‑day delivery. The role is a senior, individual contributor position with strong matrix influence across CloudOps, IT, Legal, Compliance and Engineering.
Team & Scope
This role will collaborate closely with CloudOps, IT, Legal, Compliance and Engineering to align security strategy with group direction and UK business needs.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Develop and run the UK security strategy, turning group guidance into local plans, setting priorities and shaping the UK security budget.
- Own and improve UK security governance, maintaining ISO 27001, ISO 9001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR and other relevant requirements, and supporting audits and third‑party risk management.
- Oversee day‑to‑day security operations, coordinate incidents with CloudOps and the Group SOC, and own penetration testing and vulnerability management.
- Ensure security is built into engineering and platform delivery through secure coding, design reviews, threat modelling, DevSecOps practices and cloud security.
- Maintain and update security and quality policies, support awareness programmes, and keep security visible across engineering, product, IT, data, legal, compliance, HR and operations.
- Drive resilience and business continuity, strengthening disaster recovery strategy and ensuring practical plans and testing.
- Support customer and commercial security activities, including questionnaires, due diligence responses and providing clear explanations of controls.
- Track security metrics, report to UK leadership and the Group CISO/SOC, and act as the main UK link to the Group SOC.
- Lead AI‑related security, monitoring risks from staff use of AI tools, AI in products, agentic workflows and evolving external tooling.
About You
You are an experienced security leader who combines sound judgement with practical delivery. You are comfortable working with senior stakeholders and detailed tasks alike, can clearly explain security, make risk visible, and help teams take sensible action. You are collaborative, pragmatic, credible, and able to influence across a complex organisation with varying brands and technical maturity.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Strong experience in a senior cyber or information security role in a technology‑led business.
- Solid grasp of security governance, risk management and control frameworks.
- Good working knowledge of ISO 27001, ISO 9001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR, and similar standards.
- Broad technical understanding across cloud, infrastructure, application security and secure delivery.
- Experience in incident response, vulnerability management and penetration testing follow‑up.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Ability to set priorities, balance risk and work in a fast‑moving environment.
Desirable
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM or CISA.
- Experience in SaaS, proptech, housing or another data‑sensitive software environment.
- Experience working with group functions, auditors, regulators or external security partners.
- Experience across multiple brands, business units or countries.
- Familiarity with AI security issues across internal use, product use and evolving external tooling.
Become part of Aareon and digitise the European property industry together with us. We value diversity, flexibility, partnership and learning opportunities.
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