Security Operations Lead, Seccl
£60-80k
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The embedded investment platform
Job no longer available
The embedded investment platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£60-80k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that’s helping more people to invest – and invest well.
Role
Who you are
- Have proven experience leading or managing security operations in a cloud-first environment, ideally AWS
- Are confident operating and improving a SIEM platform, with hands-on experience of tuning, rules and integrations
- Have experience working with outsourced SOC or security partners and managing alert triage and escalation
- Understand the full vulnerability management lifecycle and can prioritise remediation based on risk
- Have strong incident response skills and are comfortable leading investigations and post-incident reviews
- Can communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business
- Have experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender security tools is desirable
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Security operations lead to join our Infrastructure and Security team at Seccl
- Reporting to the Director of engineering and security, you’ll work closely with IT, infrastructure and application teams, as well as an external security operations partner
- This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening and evolving our security operations as the business continues to grow
- You’ll have ownership of day-to-day security operations, incident response, and continuous improvement of our security capabilities to help protect Seccl and our customers
- The Infrastructure and Security team sits at the heart of Seccl’s technology organisation, ensuring the resilience, availability and security of our platform that underpins everything we do
- The team’s mission is to enable the business to scale securely by embedding strong security controls, rapid threat detection and effective incident response into our day-to-day operations
- With ongoing investment in cloud security, SIEM maturity and vulnerability management, the team is driving several key initiatives to continuously raise Seccl’s security posture
- You’ll be joining a collaborative, forward-thinking team that plays a critical role in protecting our customers, partners and the wider business
- Overseeing day-to-day security operations, ensuring effective detection, investigation and response to security events
- Managing and tuning the SIEM platform to improve alert quality, coverage and operational effectiveness
- Working with an outsourced security operations partner to triage alerts and coordinate incident response
- Leading vulnerability management activities, prioritising remediation based on risk
- Collaborating with infrastructure, IT and application teams to embed effective security controls
- Integrating threat intelligence into detection and response workflows
- Monitoring and reporting on security metrics, incidents and trends to key stakeholders
- If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We’d love to hear from you!
Application process
- Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):
- First stage – 30 mins competencies-based interview with the hiring manager
- Second stage – 90 minute scenario based interview or assessment
- Final stage – 30 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
- ⏳ We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying
Our take
Seccl is an embedded investment platform revolutionising how companies offer investment services. With its API-first technology infrastructure, it helps financial professionals and businesses launch and manage investment platforms easily. By simplifying old, clunky processes, Seccl gives firms the tools they need to offer customers a seamless, digital investing experience - whether it's for financial advisers, neobanks, or fast-growing startups.
Since being acquired by Octopus in 2019, Seccl has seen impressive growth. Now supporting over 1 million investors, it manages more than £6 billion in funds through its platform. With this, Seccl is well on track to power even more businesses, and as it continues to grow, its mission to disrupt the industry with smarter, scalable solutions is only growing in momentum.
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Company benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working: We don’t prescribe when or how many days you come into the office. It’s what you deliver that’s important
- Events and socials: Twice-yearly all-company offsites, regular team socials and plenty of non-work activities – from gigs to sporting activities – to get stuck into
- Private medical: Access GP and other health and dental appointments work through private medical insurance
- Focus on mental health: Your wellbeing is more important than work. We offer free and confidential access to therapy if you need it
- Long-service award: A month’s fully-paid sabbatical when you’ve worked here for eight years (we’re part of Octopus, after all)
- The usual stuff: 27 days’ holiday (plus religious holidays and your birthday), Cycle2Work scheme and workplace pension
Company values
- Never settle
- Take ownership
- Be generous and candid
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
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Leadership
David Ferguson
(Executive Chairman)Joined Seccl in 2022 as CEO. Before that, they spent 15 years as the CEO of Nucleus Financial Group.
Jonathan Dees
(CEO)Previously COO of Octopus Investments and ZPG. Before that, they were Interim CFO at the Fairtrade Foundation.
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