Cyber Security Officer

Cyber Security Officer

Permanent – Competitive salary + benefits

North London – 3 days in office (hybrid)

Are you a dynamic, people-focused cyber security professional with a passion for improving security in a fast-paced environment? We're working with one of the UK’s leading Retailers on a new opportunity for a Cyber Security Officer to help strengthen their global security landscape.

The Opportunity

As Cyber Security Officer, you’ll play a central role in safeguarding the company’s systems, data, and operations. You’ll implement and maintain a broad cyber security framework across people, process, and technology, ensuring best practice, risk mitigation, and security resilience in a constantly evolving threat landscape.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Effectively operate and enhance existing cyber security tools, while researching and deploying new solutions (e.g. XDR, SOAR).
• Lead and support incident response activities, including simulations and live scenarios.
• Oversee and maintain the outsourced SOC team and other cyber partners.
• Review and implement policy improvements aligned to GDPR, ISO27001, NIST and other key standards.
• Deliver impactful security awareness and training programmes across the business.
• Support audits, penetration tests, and vulnerability management – driving remediation and improvements.
• Work closely with teams across Legal, Finance, Marketing, Global Tech, and Internal Audit.

Key experience:

• Minimum 3+ years' experience in a cyber security or analyst role within a complex organisation.
• Broad expertise across identity & access management, security operations, network and data security.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO/IEC 27001, Cyber Essentials, or NIST frameworks.
• Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders – both technical and non-technical.
• Excellent communicator – able to translate technical risks into business language.
• Ideally holds or is working towards certifications such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, SSCP.

Join a collaborative, forward-thinking tech team where cyber security is a top priority and your ideas truly make an impact – Apply today!