Senior Security Engineer

Senior Security Engineer

Salary circa £60,000

6-Month FTC

Are you someone who thrives on solving complex security challenges and protecting critical systems in a dynamic environment? At Aviva, we’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management team and make a difference to the millions of customers we serve.

The role will involve being hands on with a focus on the availability and reliability of some of our most critical security tooling whilst automating away operational burden. Our job is to provide actionable insight into the security posture of our systems and platforms prioritising remediation activities for our engineering colleagues and system owners to remediate as well as assurance that effective security controls and guardrails are in place across our on-prem and public cloud environments.

This is a 6-month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC)

A bit about the job:

As a senior position, you’ll have the freedom to leverage your knowledge and real-world experience to work with other teams and help drive innovation across our prevention, detection, and response capabilities. When major security incidents occur, you will be working alongside other security colleagues bringing your experience to help.

You will be responsible for:

• Building our detection, data correlation and response capabilities in the VM space. As a team we also feed into the standards and patterns for our engineering community.

• Evaluating new tools and techniques being able to articulate their value and impact and help lead the roadmap and strategy for Security testing.

• Build a range of capabilities to inform our stakeholders on the status and progress of VM remediation efforts across engineering and up to leadership and C level.

• Automate integrations between platforms and tooling and translating requirements into tasks & code.

• Work alongside our analysts to upskill them in Vulnerability Management and look for patterns and issues that can be fixed centrally.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience with responding to security incidents in large scale corporate environments.

• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Power Shell, Terraform or similar.

• Experience with Vulnerability Scanning tools such as Tenable etc and to categorise criticality as well as risk of a vulnerability.

• Keen to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.

• Have a passion for technology and can share that passion with others.

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.

• Starting salary circa £60,000 (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.

• 29 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 Matthew Drew a call on 0121 234 7664 or send an email to matthew.drew@aviva.com.