Your new role at NewDay
We are looking for someone to lead our Cloud Security team to help us secure our modern cloud-native platform. You will help by facilitating work delivered by cloud security architects and engineers:
- Helping to build and scale out a secure engineering culture, working with teams to embed secure engineering practices & secure-by-design principles
- Reviewing the security posture of our cloud platform and identifying cloud security risks and issues, and working with our platform and product teams to improve our platform
- Deliver clear recommendations for building security capabilities to deliver security policy and compliance objectives
- Leading internal learning sessions, giving our security champions help and support to improve their security knowledge
0-12 months you’ll deliver
- Review and build team processes
- Maturity assessments of application security practices
- Improving security culture and awareness program for Engineering
- Delivery of security tooling
- Securing critical business products and feature delivery
What you’ll bring We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:
- Leading security engineering teams
- Building secured paved roads for engineering teams to implement
- Managing team ways of working and ownership of work items
- Experience in financial services, regulated environments, consumer lending, payments, or card issuing
- Planning and delivering roadmaps, contributing to our cloud security strategy
- Good understanding of security risk management in a Cloud Security context, and of cloud security principles
- Security and compliance frameworks and standards, e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR
And would love you to know or learn:
- Security Architecture
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code
- Proficiency in some of C#, .Net, Java, JavaScript/Typescript, Terraform
- Knowledge of Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes cloud-native services
- Securing GitOps and Continuous Deployment
- Identity and Access Management, including securing privileged access
- Threat Detection engineering
- Relevant certifications such as SABSA, CISSP, CCSK, AZ-500
Where next?
We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive
In the NewDay Tech team, you’ll join an Expert or Leader career pathway. This will guide you on what your next step here could look like, with regular and open feedback to help you build capabilities to move forward.
About NewDay
We help people move forward with credit,and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too.
We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO.
Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.
Our dynamic
NewDay culture We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing, and build for the future.
We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.
At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.
NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance - and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc
Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).
Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.
Let’s talk about this role – contact talent@newday.co.uk