About the role
We are the trusted security advisors for Tesco Technology. Our purpose is to collaborate seamlessly with the product and engineering teams, leveraging our deep expertise in cyber security to design and implement robust, resilient solutions that protect our business and customers from cyber threats. We are a dynamic and expanding global team of 15+ experts, serving as the strategic link between the wider security group and software engineering teams that develop cutting‑edge services at scale to support the retail business.
As a Senior Cyber Security Partner, you will transform the security maturity of key product areas and teams. You will be the face of the security group for them. Everything you do is in the context of the product roadmap, its risk acceptance level, the technology stack, and its architecture.
You build a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape and its potential risks to the business. Through effective partnership, you engage the leadership to make well‑informed decisions about security and privacy.
Responsibilities
- Provide product and engineering teams with direction and guidance on all security matters. There is a whole security group to back you up; so it is not as scary as it sounds.
- Engage engineering leadership on the security roadmap and oversee the security posture of what they build.
- Co‑own the security roadmap; discuss, prioritise and co‑develop plans for remediation for the product areas.
- Empower security champions to succeed and create a strong feedback loop for improvements.
- Represent security in all product and architecture meet‑ups; be part of critical decisions about security.
- Oversee product security activities from early development of security requirements, architecture reviews and threat modelling, to strengthening application security, mitigating supply‑chain risks, securing secrets, pipelines, reviewing vulnerabilities and infrastructure security.
- Perform security architecture reviews of third‑party services.
Qualifications
- Possess experience across multiple sectors and have undertaken diverse roles in engineering and security. Demonstrable accomplishments in collaborating with leadership and management on security programmes and initiatives.
- Good knowledge of various security domains, and solid experience in architecture practices and design patterns – the technology may have changed but most of the security challenges have not.
- Experience in designing security and privacy controls with sound understanding of standards and regulation.
- Experience in threat modelling, attack trees, vulnerability chaining, applying MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Good understanding of web applications, REST APIs, micro‑services, eventing, modern application frameworks and mobile apps.
- Good understanding of software architecture, network topologies, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS (infrastructure as a service).
- Proficient in applying industry standards such as OWASP ASVS, OWASP Top 10, CIS controls and benchmarks.
Benefits
- 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 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, and 6 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.
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