Security Engineering Manager - Vulnerability Management

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
• A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Buy As You Earn Scheme
• Save As You Earn Scheme
• Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
• Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses
• Subsidised Canteens
• Subsidised on-site Nuffield Health Gym

About the role

Our cyber security team are the eyes and ears of our organisation. We use the latest technologies to increase visibility and protection of systems, services and data. To do this we need to stay ahead of the latest threats and continuously improve our tooling, techniques, and processes.

Responsible for developing and running security processes day-to-day for the Tesco Group, we’re continually working to step change security capability to further enhance the protection and controls that we offer for our customers and colleagues across the UK, Europe and Asia, and we’re looking to add great people to our growing team.

We believe that skilled and passionate people are our greatest asset in reducing risk to our business and customers. We encourage and support continual development and learning, and recognise the importance of keeping up with changes in technology and an evolving threat landscape.

Communication is key – working collaboratively with our software and systems engineering teams to support security throughout the development lifecycle, as well as to build proactive monitoring and responses to security events.

You will be responsible for

Security Engineering Managers establish and sustain the environment for Security Engineers to succeed. They build, develop and lead the continuous improvement of security engineering practises at Tesco with a motivated and capable team of Security Engineers. They are also responsible for the quality of advice and guidance given to Technology teams.
The Security Engineering Manager for Vulnerability Management leads and develops the technology, people and processes for enabling and operating the practice of identifying, classifying, prioritising, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities across an enterprise estate of technology assets.
The following provides an overview of the role's responsibilities:

• Represent the Technology Security team and assist other engineering teams in adhering to secure design principles
• Help teams deliver secure solutions using security skills and displaying a flexible agile approach by embracing emerging technologies
• Work closely and collaboratively with engineering and product teams
• Deliver innovation using past engineering experience to create and deliver solutions
• Use an appreciation of the DevSecOps philosophy of bringing culture, automation, lean, measurement and sharing into security
• Provide targeted application security requirements based on design, threats, industry best practices, and Tesco policies
• Empower delivery team resources by promoting application security awareness and standards through training, mentoring, and communities of best practice
• Influence delivery teams in the prioritisation of security activities and issue remediation
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging application security products and technologies
• Support and lead on security incidents
• Drive adoption of new tools and techniques with an understanding of their value and impact
• Keep technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco
• Share knowledge with the wider engineering community
• Lead and develop a high performing team

This role will suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind. You should be motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, put customers first.

You will need

Relevant Technical Skills:

• A strong understanding of information and cyber security principles and best practices
• Previous experience with a Web Application Scanners (e.g. Qualys / Nessus, Tennable.io, Netsparker)
• Knowledge and experience with pen testing tools (e.g. Nmap, Kali Linux, Metasploit)
• Ideally an ability to write small tools using scripting languages and general-purpose programming languages (e.g. Python)
• Agile approach
• Rest API’s, automation, system integration and automated testing
• Cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure)

Relevant Soft Skills:

• Stakeholder management
• People management

Relevant Experience:

• Experience leading and developing a team of engineers in a similar role
• Experience developing and maintaining working relationships with 3rd party solution and service providers
• Previous experience working in a DevOps environment and building teams deliver secure code in an automated way
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Extensive experience in the Information Technology field
• Ideally one or more of the following certifications: CEH, SANS GIAC, SSCP, CISSP, CSSLP

About us

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world’s leading retailer.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.

Joining us means playing a part in defining; building and launching an ambitious roadmap of digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.

If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.

The position will be based at our Campus in Welwyn Garden City.