Principal Cyber Security Specialist in Bradford

Overview

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Bradford, Chatham, Petersfield, London

Working Pattern: Hybrid (usually a couple of days a week in the office). We welcome part-time and flexible arrangements and will aim to match your current flexibility.

What We Offer

• Holidays: 25 days (rising to 30) with buy/sell up to 5 days and swap up to 4 bank days
• Up to 10% employer Leave (for example enhanced maternity post-probation)
• 4 weeks paternity and paid neonatal & carers leave
• Work abroad for up to 20 days a year in approved locations
• Your birthday off: 2 paid volunteering days
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for all
• Wellbeing: Free Snoop Premium
• Self-pay Den plan & optional Private Medical

Role and Responsibilities

As a Principal Cyber Security Specialist you will play a key role in architecting, deploying and maintaining security-driven automation, integrations and platform engineering efforts that support security operations, threat intelligence and incident response. Work under Zero Trust principles and report to the Cyber Security Manager; collaborate with security engineering, threat intel, software engineering, Cloud engineering and security operations teams to design, build and optimize security tooling for efficient and scalable security operations. Provide support and mentorship to security team members, act as an escalation point for technical issues for junior staff, and apply security design principles to high- and low-level designs and patterns. Assess tools and controls for information security, identify gaps and drive delivery and maintenance of security tooling aligned with overall security architecture. Maintain cloud-native security solutions in Azure, AWS and GCP (GCP advantageous but not required). Implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies to deploy and manage security tooling, integrations with SIEMs, SOAR platforms, EDR/XDR and case management. Optimize log and telemetry ingestion, enrichment, correlation and alerting workflows across multiple data sources with Cloud and DevOps teams; embed security into IaC and CI/CD pipelines with secure code deployment and automated quality and security gates (e.g., container vulnerability and secrets detection). Embed security controls, monitoring and compliance automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for internally developed applications and low-code solutions (Power Platform, Salesforce, MuleSoft, etc.). Build and maintain application security controls for SaaS, SPM, WAF, and related tooling.

What We're Looking For

• 5 years of experience in Security Engineering, Security Automation or DevSecOps, with hands-on experience designing and implementing security tooling and security architecture
• Experience with security tooling deployment and maintenance of SIEMs (e.g., Rapid7 IDR, Splunk, Sentinel)
• Strong cloud security engineering knowledge in Azure and AWS; GCP experience advantageous; experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Understanding of DevOps principles and experience securing CI/CD with container security (Docker, Kubernetes) and implementing security controls for microservices
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) and integration with security tooling
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

About Us

At Vanquis our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking that helps people make the most of life's opportunities. Founded in 1880, we are a FTSE All Share specialist bank supporting over 1.7 million UK customers, proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s Best Employers 2025. We are signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and value a workplace where colleagues feel connected, valued and empowered. We offer competitive pay, a discretionary bonus scheme, and continued investment in development. With the right support, you’ll grow your skills, shape your career and realize your potential. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please contact us and we’ll help.

Required Experience

• Experience level: Staff IC
• Key Skills: CCTV, Low Voltage, Network Management, IDS, Computer Networking, Field Service, ICD Coding, Military Experience, Security, Security System Experience, Information Security, Troubleshooting
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Experience: years
• Vacancy: 1