Cyber Security Specialist

Cyber Security Specialist – National Salary Circa £55,000. London Salary Circa £75,000.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual in Cloud Technology and cyber security, who can work with minimal supervision looking for a role in our UK CISO team then we would love to hear from you.

A bit about the job:

You will be Part of the GI security team, helping GI and other stakeholders to make the right security and risk management decisions by ensuing the inclusion of security policy and industry good practice whilst remaining pragmatic and supportive.

Main point of security liaison between different stakeholders including ops teams, platform team and service consumers for our Zero platform. CISO stakeholder in change control, review and provide security input to changes, designs, and other initiatives.

Overseeing Zero internal security assurance activities and continual security improvement. Tracking risks and compliance and producing regular security reporting to stakeholders in Zero and to GI Security team.

Aviva operates a “smart working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office this role is based in Norwich, Bristol, or London.

 Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

• Certification for information security such as CISSP, CISM or equivalent work experience (3+ years of dedicated information security experience, ideally 5+ years).

• Ability to communicate to technical staff, senior stakeholders and produce quality reports / documentation and to work independently, learn and use initiative.

• Can support change activity and review architectural and solution designs and call out security issues, whether related to technology, people or process and then suggest pragmatic solutions.

• Good knowledge and experience of AWS.

• Good working knowledge of contemporary technical and security topics such as firewalls, web application firewalls, cloud, web technology, development, IT operations.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• National Salary Circa £55,000. London Salary Circa £75,000. (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com