Information Security Analyst - Product Assurance in Coventry

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits

Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Contract type: Permanent

Business area: Sainsbury's Tech

Closing date: 15 June 2026

Requisition ID: 400064464

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

As an Information Security Analyst in the Data Governance and Information Security Team, you will be working within the Product Assurance team who are responsible for ensuring our Engineering and Development communities are building and maintaining secure products through their entire lifecycle. You will be continually reviewing our security posture and setting the direction on how best to make improvements in line with the evolving threat landscape and core business objectives. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years’ experience working within Information or Cyber Security and be passionate about continuous professional development. You will be asked to provide recent, industry‑respect certificates if successful at interview to demonstrate your ongoing education. Whilst this role isn’t ‘hands‑on’ candidates are expected to have an in‑depth knowledge of security technologies and how these are integrated in monolithic and microservice architectures.

What you need to do:

• Have good all round infosec experience coupled with finely honed Stakeholder Management skills to ensure that robust security is maintained across our environment.
• Work in a flexible, agile manner within Engineering Families, whilst maintaining appropriate levels of challenge and governance.
• Ensure security is built in by design, products are delivered securely with client and employee data appropriately protected.
• Define Security Non‑Functional Requirements for each project and ensure that they are fulfilled before going into service, ensuring the relevant technology standards are applied to specific projects.
• Liaise with the Information Security Testing Team to ensure that Ethical Hacking, Code Reviews, Application Scanning, and Infrastructure Scanning is conducted.
• Provide end to end assurance of IT products across the Group, throughout its lifecycle, providing approvals where appropriate.
• Articulate risk in technical and non‑technical terminology so that it can be interpreted by IT and Business individuals alike.
• Help identify, assess, and manage strategic, operational and emerging risks affecting the Cloud and Data, and articulate, quantify and monitor risks according to risk appetite.
• Build and maintain strong senior stakeholder relationships within technology and the business to understand security risk and drive robust risk‑based decision making.
• Effectively articulate technical issues to business units and engineering teams.
• Liaise with third‑party strategic partners and providers who support Sainsbury’s.

What you need to know and show:

• A strong technical understanding of security to ensure systems are designed and built securely and to help continually improve our security posture.
• Appreciation of containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Fundamental knowledge of logging, monitoring, load balancing/proxies and API gateways.
• Fundamental knowledge of GitHub, Jenkins & Jira.
• Basic knowledge of the OWASP Top 10, Mitre ATT&CK, NIST frameworks, PCI‑DSS and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Fundamental understanding of PAM, EDR, AV, IPS, SIEM, WAF and DLP technologies.
• The ability to verify solutions and gain assurance that they are fit for purpose through demonstrable evidence of controls and testing.
• Strong understanding of the changing threat landscape and how this may affect our systems.
• The ability to challenge concerns and report through appropriate channels.
• Self‑drive, motivation and the ability to work independently to deliver expected outcomes.
• In‑depth understanding of data and security risks in a large enterprise.
• Risk & Vulnerability Management experience and understanding of Risk & Vulnerability Management Frameworks.
• Strong analytical and report writing skills.
• Experience with serverless cloud technologies such as AWS storage and Lambda functions.

Desirable Qualifications:

• CSA CCSK / CCAK
• AWS Certified Security
• Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate
• ISACA CISA / CISM / CRISC / CGEIT
• MSc. Information/Cyber Security

Benefits and Work‑Life Balance:

• Colleague discount across our multi‑brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU Clothing and Habitat.
• Pension plan.
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.
• Flexible working approach to support work‑life balance – remote, on‑site or hybrid, flexible hours.
• Wellbeing benefits: annual holiday allowance, option to buy additional holiday, season ticket loan, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, employee assistance programme.
• Maternity or adoption leave up to 26 weeks’ pay, and paternity leave up to 4 weeks’ pay.
• Performance‑related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on company performance.

For more information about benefits and eligibility, please see www.sainsburys.jobs.