Senior Security Engineer in Bristol

Role: OVO-View Team: Security Engineering (Information Security Office)

Salary banding: £52,800 - £76,038

Experience: Expert

Reporting to: Senior Security Engineering Manager

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Top 3 qualities for this role: Collaborative, Integrity and Problem‑Solving Oriented

Where you’ll work: Depending on the needs of your business area, we expect hub‑based people to be in the office at least once a week, and to attend OVO Connection events in‑person. You’ll be assigned to the closest of our three hub offices – Bristol, Glasgow, or London – unless your role requires field‑based work. Each hub has accessible spaces to park your laptop, is designed to inspire people, help them connect and bring big ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO. At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity’s biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That’s why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet: Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how: We’re hiring creators, challengers and coaches. Every role puts people at the heart of our information security strategy and uses technology and operational processes to build a resilient and performant business. The Path to Zero is paved with well‑informed risk and reward decisions!

This role in a nutshell: As an application security specialist, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the security of software applications. You will work closely with development teams to develop and implement secure coding practices and guidelines. You will also conduct security assessments to identify vulnerabilities in existing applications and recommend mitigations. Additionally, you will perform code reviews to ensure that new code adheres to security best practices.

Your key outcomes will be:

• You are an engineer with a growth mindset who seeks to broaden your soft and technology skills.
• You are passionate about developing products that will positively impact our mission to deliver Plan Zero.
• You love working in teams collaborating and knowledge sharing to build features that impact customers.
• You are motivated by owning products, from inception to continuous improvement.
• You value test automation as a key part of your role as a security engineer.
• You love building scalable, resilient solutions.

Systems: Experience building integrations, workflows, actionable insights and operating models based on the following technologies and platforms would be advantageous (we are not expecting candidates to have experience in all these platforms):

• Cloud Native Application Protection and Cloud Security Posture Management (Wiz).
• Application Security Posture Management (Wiz Code).
• Web Application Firewall and related technologies (Cloudflare).
• GCP, AWS and Azure native security and compliance monitoring.
• SaaS discovery, event monitoring and security posture management.
• Endpoint, Cloud and Identity Detection and Response.
• Threat Modelling.
• Issue and Project Tracking (Jira).
• Cyber Asset and Attack Surface Management.
• Infrastructure Vulnerability Scanning.

You’ll be a successful Security Engineer here at OVO if you…

• Are a creator: You're a hands‑on Senior Engineer who takes a user‑centered design approach to build and administer automated security verification workflows; you lead by example, leveraging APIs and policy agents to pull and/or aggregate data from various sources, combining sources to enrich and inform GRC.
• Are a challenger: you embrace failure and do not shy away from difficult conversations in order to drive business and cyber risk strategy and security architecture alignment. You are a champion for clarity about boundaries of responsibility for security work.
• Are a coach: you inspire your team and provide examples, practical support and approaches to integrate with the business to educate, advise and influence activities with cyber risk implications. You help innovate and instigate change to manage risk.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you: We’ll pay you between £52,800 and £76,038, depending on your specific skills and experience. We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero‑carbon mission. You’ll be eligible for an on‑target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary – 4% of this is auto‑enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to use for flexible benefits, add to your pension or even take as cash.

Here’s a taster of what’s on offer:

• For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
• For your health: Benefits include a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more.
• For your wellbeing: Includes gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will‑writing services, dental insurance, and more.
• For your lifestyle: Extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and support for your favourite charities with give‑as‑you‑earn donations.
• For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.
• For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra‑low emission car leasing, plus our cycle‑to‑work scheme and public transport season ticket loans.

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.