Staff Security Engineer (Data Specialist)

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• Salary banding: £72,000 - £95,000
• Experience: Expert
• Working pattern: Full-Time
• Reporting to: Principal Security Engineer, Security Controls Assurance
• Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
• This role in 3 words: Amazing Security Insights
• Top 3 qualities for this role: Creative, Adaptable, Technical

Where You’Ll Work:

Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to go to OVO Connection events in-person. 

You’ll be assigned to the closest one of our three hub offices, Bristol, Glasgow, or London; unless your role requires field-based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone Belongs At Ovo:

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking For The Planet:

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We’re hiring creators and challengers who deliver high-impact, well-engineered solutions. Every role we’re hiring puts people at the heart of our security strategy and uses technology and operational processes to build a resilient and performant business. The Path to Zero is paved with secure technology!

This Role In A Nutshell:

As a Staff Security Engineer - Security Data Specialist, you will work closely with fellow security engineers to design, build, and deploy data solutions that drive organisation-wide security value. Your solutions will enable product and service owners, engineering teams including security engineers to proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to amplify weaknesses and drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.  This is a great opportunity for someone who is motivated to use data to drive security improvements, and best practices across a business with wide-ranging impact, and loves working in collaborative, and supportive environments.

Your Key Outcomes Will Be:

• Help architect, design, and deploy new features, and functionality in a unified OVO security data platform to enable security engineers to optimise and automate cyber defence, attack surface and security controls assurance processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security data and AI trends, tools, and technologies to ensure the team’s technical approach is innovative.
• Foster an inclusive team environment where everyone feels valued and excited to contribute.
• Communicate optimally with collaborators to explain concepts and drive informed decision making.

Within your first 3 months month you’ll:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of our existing security data sources, data pipelines, warehouse, and security operations principles.
• Contribute to the development and enhancing of our security data and AI model architectures 
• Guide and educate other teams about effective security data and AI practices and opportunities.

Systems: Google Cloud Platform services, GitHub, Looker, Wiz, Google SecOps, Crowdstrike

You’ll be a successful Staff Security Engineer - Security Data Specialist at OVO if you …

• Data automation and AI-enablement: Designs and implements robust automation and AI augmentation frameworks and tools (e.g. for threat detection, security finding and incident remediation and risk operations). Automates security playbooks , policies and guardrails in workflows, CI/CD and/or the IDE.
• Secure development: Create and deliver automated assurance mechanisms against technical security guidance and configurations. Build and implement security audit points in digital services. Monitor secure coding and infrastructure patterns, automate policy enforcement and enable teams for secure provisioning. 
• Decision support and behaviour change: Strategically design security decision-making experiences and measure their impact. Use statistical analysis and human-centered design principles to build and test different ways of presenting information. Leads projects that aim to "de-bias" critical security processes, such as strategic planning or forecasting, by embedding data-driven checks and balances. Acts as a subject matter expert, advising other teams on how to structure their data and analysis to support optimal communication and decision-making.
• Mentor Junior Engineers: Actively mentor associate and mid-level security engineers. Provide technical guidance on security and data concepts and tools, review their work (e.g. assessment reports, proposed controls), share knowledge and experience, and support their professional development within the team.
• Community of Practice: Contribute to the security engineering Community of Practice (CoP) by leading discussions, sharing practices, offering firsthand experience to the wider community, engaging in knowledge exchange / cross-pollination to further your craft. Create content and and individually contribute to the stated successful outcomes for the CoP.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you:

We’ll pay you between £72,000 and £95,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).

For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more

For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more

For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations

For your home 
Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers

For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For Your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.