Senior Security Engineer, OVO
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£77.6-95k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£77.6-95k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%
More information about location
1+ day a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
OVO is a leading energy technology company determined to create a world with clean, affordable energy for everyone. Using energy, technology and people power, the company is on a mission to lower its carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping customers reduce theirs at the same time - they call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Collaborative, Integrity and Problem-Solving Oriented
- Systems: Experience building integrations, workflows, actionable insights and operating models based on the following technologies and platforms would be advantageous (we are not expecting candidates to have experience in all these platforms):
- Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz)
- Application Security Posture Management (JIT)
- Web Application Firewall and related technologies (Cloudflare)
- GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring
- SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management
- Identity and Access Management and Privileged Access Management platforms
- Zero Trust Network Access Solutions
- Endpoint, Cloud and Identity Detection and Response
- Issue and Project Tracking (Jira)
- Cyber Asset and Attack Surface Management
- Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning
- A creator: You're a hands-on Senior Engineer who takes a user-centered design approach to build and administer automated security verification workflows; you lead by example, leveraging APIs and policy agents to pull and/or aggregate data from various sources, combining sources to enrich and inform GRC
- A challenger: you embrace failure and do not shy away from difficult conversations in order to drive business and cyber risk strategy and security architecture alignment. You are a champion for clarity about boundaries of responsibility for security work
- A coach: you inspire your team and provide examples, practical support and approaches to integrate with the business to educate, advise and influence activities with cyber risk implications. You help innovate and instigate change to manage risk
What the job involves
- Team: Security Engineering (Information Security Office)
- Reporting to: Senior Security Engineering Manager
- As an application security specialist, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the security of software applications
- You will work closely with development teams to develop and implement secure coding practices and guidelines
- You will also conduct security assessments to identify vulnerabilities in existing applications and recommend mitigations
- Additionally, you will perform code reviews to ensure that new code adheres to security best practices
- Your key outcomes will be:
- An engineer with a growth mindset who seeks to broaden your soft and technology skills
- Passionate about developing products that will positively impact our mission to deliver Plan Zero
- Love working in teams collaborating and knowledge sharing to build features that impact customers
- Motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement
- Value test automation as a key part of your role as a software engineer
- Love building scalable, resilient solutions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% female employees
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$250.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$250.6m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $540.1m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Articles
Leadership
Stephen Fitzpatrick
(Founder)Founder of multiple electric technology companies.
David Buttress
(Chief Executive Officer)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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