Security Operations Lead, Beam
£90-100k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
Posted today
Reinventing welfare services with Tech & AI
101-200 employees
Posted today
£90-100k
+ Equity
2-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Role
Who you are
- A security operations lead who has built or run detection and response in a cloud-native environment. You have written and tuned detection rules, lived with the noise, and led incidents from first alert to post-incident review
- Experienced running a vulnerability management programme to SLA where remediation sat with engineering teams that did not report to you
- Comfortable in GCP and Kubernetes at the level needed to assess a control, read a configuration, and know when to dig deeper with Engineering
- Familiar with what auditors need. You have evidenced controls under ISO 27001, SOC 2 or NIST 800-53 and can tell a control that operates from one that is just documented
- Able to influence without authority. Engineers act on your findings because you have made the case in their terms, not because you escalated
- Precise about claims. You say what is true about the security posture, including when it is uncomfortable, and you do not let a customer answer overstate the control behind it
- Ideally, literate enough in application security to review an SDLC gate or a code-level finding; if not, clear about that boundary and ready to buy the depth in
What the job involves
- The Security Operations Lead is Beam's first dedicated operational security role. You run security operations across six deployments in four regions: detection and response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, cloud security posture, external attack surface, third-party security assessment and adversarial testing of our AI products. You are also the assurance owner for the platform security controls Engineering operates: you check they work, hold the evidence, and answer for them to auditors and customers in every region. You report to the Chief Information Risk Officer and support them on security incidents
- Day to day: tuning the SIEM and working with the MDR; triaging vulnerability findings and holding remediation to SLA with Engineering; scoping and running pen tests with our external partner; reviewing Engineering's platform controls and gathering evidence; running incident response exercises; answering the security half of customer and auditor questions
- Running detection and response. Owning the SIEM and detection stack (a SIEM is in place but not deeply embedded; you decide whether it stays), owning detection rules, managing alert triage and noise, and selecting and managing the 24/7 MDR service so that out-of-hours compromise in any of our four regions is seen and acted on
- Owning the vulnerability programme end to end. Detection, triage, remediation to SLA with Engineering and IT Ops, and reporting that matches what we tell customers. Includes cloud security posture (GCP, AWS), configuration drift across deployments, and the external attack surface (domains, DNS, TLS, security ratings)
- Scoping and coordinating penetration testing across all products and regions with our external partner, and owning the vulnerability disclosure programme
- Assuring Engineering-owned platform controls: encryption and key management, network segmentation, workload hardening, privileged and non-human identity, secrets lifecycle, supply-chain integrity, audit-trail integrity, and data residency across regions. You check they operate, hold the evidence, and answer for them in ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP and IRAP assessments
- Making Beam incident-ready. Incident response plans and runbooks, exercises with Engineering, forensics readiness, and hands-on support to the CIRO during security incidents
- Leading AI threat modelling and adversarial testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data extraction, caller-side attacks on telephony products) with our red-team partner, and providing security assurance for new product surfaces (desktop clients, browser extensions, integrations, public API)
- Running third-party security assessment of sub-processors and suppliers, delivering role-based security training to engineers and administrators, and reporting security metrics to the CIRO and leadership
Application process
- We take hiring seriously. We have a 4-stage and an optional 5th interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Trusted by over 100 government partners, Beam is a social enterprise that brings AI to welfare services. Enabled by tech and AI, their caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, whilst their software has slashed admin for thousands of frontline workers across the UK.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and was even named Purpose Entrepreneur of the Year 2024. The rest of Beam's senior team has their own wealth of experience from a variety of leading startups, tech, and social impact businesses like Arm, Multiverse, and GoCardless.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business awards - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK. Their work has been covered widely in the media, with features from the BBC, The Times, FT, Forbes and The Independent.
AI has the potential to be a game changer for social workers and in a recent pilot, Beam's AI tool, Magic Notes, reduced the time spend on administrative tasks by over 60% and cut assessment write-ups from four hours to just 90 minutes. As councils explore next steps, Beam's technology is already redefining how frontline workers deliver care, so they can spend more time on what matters most.
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Meet the team
5 people
Rachel Astall, CCO
Our mission
Our 5-person C-Suite brings together leaders from tech, care work and AI - bringing a wealth of diverse experience.Insights
61% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.9)
Company
Company benefits
- Share options: Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Access to therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
- 1:1 workplace coaching with Oliva
- Your own financial well-being coach, through Bippit
- Generous Holiday - 25 days with 3 additional days over the Christmas period + bank holidays
- Work remotely up to 6 weeks a year
- Eligible for a 6-week sabbatical after 3 years in service
- Nursery scheme through Gogeta
- Healthcare cover through Benenden Health
- Enhanced parental leave: Primary Caregiver leave 18 weeks and Secondary Caregiver leave 4 weeks
- £200 WellBeam budget for activities enhancing wellbeing and professional development
- Annual membership to Shoreditch Exchange gym (London office only)
- Pension scheme where we contribute 4% of your salary and you contribute 5%.
- Free subscription to the Calm meditation app
- Discounted bike and accessories with Cyclescheme, and tech products with Techscheme
Company values
- Mission first: We drive the mission for those we serve with heart, grit and zero ego
- Aim high and deliver: We deliver outsized impact through setting and executing against ambitious targets
- Raise the pace: We move with urgency and accelerate others, without compromising excellence
- Get better together: Everything is a work in progress. We constantly work on improving ourselves and Beam
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Alex Stephany
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4M customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(Co-Founder & COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Ryan joined in 2020 as an Operations Executive. Since then, they have held a number of roles and are now the Head of Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beam
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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