Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £48,000 - £72,000 DOE + Red Hot Benefits.
Location: Hybrid - With the occasional and infrequent travel to Glasgow.
Contract type: Permanent - Full Time

Live up to your potential. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team

We’re at our best when we have something to drive us forward, a belief that underlines who we are and what we do. Our Purpose. We want to make people happier about money – and that idea starts with every single one of us here at Virgin Money. Feeling Insatiably Curious about your next adventure? You might have just found it.

The Security Engineering team is part of Technical Operations and Cyber Security within Virgin Money, and we maintain the Bank’s Security tools & applications. Our aim of Security Engineering is to cultivate unwavering trust in our products and services by engineering resilient security solutions that protect our users and customers from evolving threats. We strive to be the invisible shield, working tirelessly to ensure their data and digital experiences remain safe, secure, and uninterrupted. By joining our team, you will become a vital part of this mission, contributing your unique skills and perspectives to building a safer digital future.

What you’ll be doing

• As a Lead Cyber Engineer, you will take a proactive approach in using security engineering tools to identify and mitigate network & security risks. You will leverage an in-depth understanding of network protocols and vulnerabilities.
• Develop, implement, and oversee security measures using specialised tools based on Cyber security best practices, ensuring robust protection against potential threats.
• Collaborate closely and provide leadership to the wider team, project teams and other stakeholders to ensure that solutions align with the strategic needs of Virgin Money and drive the security agenda forward.
• In addition, you will be a lead on the development of Network Detection and Response (NDR) initiatives, ensuring that emerging threats are swiftly identified and mitigated to safeguard our network integrity.
• Lead the development and support of network segmentation capabilities, determining granular segmentation from a threat-led perspective, such as working with Cyber Threat Intelligence teams to map attack paths and build mitigations.
• Oversee the rollout of new technologies and integrations with security tooling, ensuring they are effectively deployed and maintained.
• Contribute significantly to the team culture and the ongoing evolution of security engineering practices, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Utilise automation to streamline processes and reduce repetitive tasks, enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness in security operations.

We need you to have

• Leadership experience with hands-on exposure and knowledge of cyber and network security, such as firewall security best practices, IPS, web gateways, network detection & response, etc
• 5-7 years of experience in Cyber Engineering, ideally in a leadership role.
• Experience with deploying Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD technologies, such as Terraform, Ansible and Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies (with a focus on security). For example, working with virtual networks, network security groups, virtual firewalling, web application firewalls, cloud networking security monitoring, Cloud security solutions.
• Experience in the methodology & the applying of zero-trust principles to secure large-scale IT infrastructures, demonstrated by successful deployments within a corporate setting.
• Proven ability to design/deploy zero-trust security solutions, including identity and access management, micro segmentation, and continuous authentication, in complex organisational structures would be an advantage.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience as a Senior Cyber Security Engineer or Senior Network Engineer with an interest in becoming a Lead Cyber Security Engineer.
• Cyber Security certifications (especially cloud centric) would be advantageous.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Javascript/Node.js, PowerShell or Bash.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and application monitoring, such as Icinga or Elastic Stack.
• Leadership experience in working in a continuous delivery mindset and agile management.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit

Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.