Senior Cyber Security Partner

As a Senior Cyber Security Partner; you will transform the security maturity of key product areas and teams. You will be the face of security group for them. Everything you do is in the context of the product; roadmap; its risk acceptance level; the technology stack; and its architecture.
You build a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape and its potential risks to the business. Through effective partnership; you engage the leadership to make well-informed decisions about security and privacy.

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
• Provide product and engineering teams with direction and guidance on all security matters. There is a whole security
group to back you up; so it is not as scary as it sounds.
• Engage engineering leadership on security roadmap and oversee security posture of what they build.
• Co-own the security roadmap; discuss; prioritise; and co-develop plans for remediation for the product areas.
• Empower security champions to succeed and creating a strong feedback loop for improvements.
• Represent security in all product and architecture meet-ups. Be part of critical decisions about security.
• Oversee product security activities; from the early development of security requirements; architecture reviews; and
threat modelling; to strengthening application security; mitigating supply-chain risks; securing secrets; pipelines;
reviewing vulnerabilities; and infrastructure security.
• Perform security architecture reviews of third-party services.
• Identify acceptable risk levels and assist with action plan; policy; and procedural changes for risk mitigation.
• Adopt a risk-based approach and guide management in identifying business risks and potential impact to Tesco.
Continuously seek both tactical and strategic solutions to enhance security.
• As the security expert for the product area; engage across the security group to strengthen controls across
identification; protection; detection; response; and recovery.
• Oversee assurance activities like security testing; purple testing; assurance; auditing.
• Reduce security fatigue for engineering and provide faster feedback within existing developer workflows; not adding
another tool for them to check.
• Empower the teams you work with; but also challenge the status-quo.
• As a senior member of the team; engage across the security group on new ideas and initiatives.
• Contribute to strengthen organisation standards and policies; develop cookbooks; secure patterns; take part in
security research and tool evaluations.
• You are committed to continuous improvement; seizing opportunities; and inspire change for the team.
• Mentor others in the team and take part in enhancing their skills and career development.

To excel in this position, we expect you to have the following:
• Possess experience across multiple sectors and have undertaken diverse roles in engineering and security.
Demonstratable accomplishments of collaborating with leadership and management on security programmes and initiatives.
• Good knowledge of various security domains, and solid experience in architecture practices and design patterns – the technology might have changed but most of the security challenges have not.
• Experience in designing security and privacy controls with sound understanding of standards and regulation.
• Experience in threat modelling, attack trees, vulnerability chaining, applying MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Good understanding of web applications, REST APIs, micro services, eventing, modern application frameworks, and mobile apps.
• Good understanding of software architecture, network topologies, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS (infrastructure as a service).
• Proficient in applying industry standards such as OWASP ASVS (Application Security Verification Standard), OWASP Top
10, CIS (Centre of Internet Security) controls and benchmarks.
• Experience with cloud native and hybrid architectures with an emphasis on containerised workloads and Kubernetes.
• Some development experience is always a plus - Java, cloud, Golang, python. You do not need to “be a developer” but we need you to understand the implications of security on engineering velocity.
• Degree in computer science / information systems or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), PCI-DSS is desirable.
• Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud security certifications is desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership skills.