Private: Space NK

We seek an experienced, hands-on, Technology Security Lead to take responsiblity for securing all aspects of our technology stack.

You are most likely in a similar role in a similar organisation with a passion for understanding security vulnerabilities and employing tools, behaviours and technology practices to safeguard valuable data and actively protect our technology estate from threats to ecommerce, retail and backoffice functions.

Main Duties

1. Be the focal point for all technology security activities, primarily for the direct channel business, but also for backoffice implementations and other technology initiatives.
2. Build a strong, collaborative security practice advocating everyone’s responsibility and role in securing our technology estate.
3. Be the primary lead on all emerging security incidents, coordinating all relevant activities related to it.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Experience

5+ years of hands-on experience as a technology security lead with a strong track record of proactive prevention and reactive incident management

Strong technical knowledge and an innate curiosity about technological weaknesses, exploitations and practical mitigations

Good stakeholder management experience.

Education / Qualifications

Primary or Secondary degree in relevant field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering

Skills and Knowledge

Deep understanding of modern technology landscapes and security threats

Proactively working with departments to ensure Security standards and methodologies are ingrained within working practices.

Liaise with business leaders on GDPR processes, requirements and company status

Ability to implement proactive and preventative tools via a fundamental understanding of how they work

Incident management skills – coordinating responses of in-house and third party teams

Security evangelism – pragmatically working with agile software engineering to make Tech Security a fundamental aspect of their work

Retail security management experience a strong plus

Additional Information

Flexible work schedule with support for remote working, some in-office collaboration a must