CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER

£60,000 to £70,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre (hybrid working)
We’re open to applications from people who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.
We’re looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to join us in Manchester, working alongside the Cloud Platform team to make sure the right security policies are in place and our products and platforms remain protected. You’ll use your expertise to support and guide our Engineering teams in building secure products and services for our customers, colleagues, and member-owners. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

WHY CO-OP?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and maintain systems and rules to ensure our security tools are effective, robust, and capable of protecting our cloud platforms from threats
• Work with Platform teams to make sure new services are monitored and their data is available to the Security Operations Centre (SOC)
• Assist the SOC in resolving cloud security incidents
• Mentor colleagues across the wider Co-op to increase their security knowledge and encourage a security-first approach
• Proactively identify and explore opportunities to improve our cloud security tools and feed requirements into and help to define our security roadmap and strategy

THIS ROLE WOULD SUIT PEOPLE WHO HAVE

• Experience as a Security Engineer within an agile environment
• Knowledge of hyperscalers such as Azure and AWS, as well as the likes of Terraform, Ansible etc.
• An awareness of the current cyber security threat landscape
• Good coaching and mentoring skills
• Good communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively
  We know that some candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet all the criteria in the job description. At Co-op, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment, so if you’d like to apply for this role but your experience doesn’t quite meet every point, we’d still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or other roles we have available.