Asset Security Assurance Manager

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

We’re looking for an Asset Security Assurance Manager to join our Cyber department to be responsible for leading and coordinating the Wales and West Utilities (WWU) approach to asset security, ensuring full compliance with all Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) A3 Asset Management requirements. This role drives alignment across teams and stakeholders to maintain accurate asset inventories, oversee the implementation of robust controls, and coordinate relevant and proportional testing of assets and systems.

We’ll trust you to:

• Define and maintain the asset security strategy and roadmap to meet CAF A3 requirements, ensuring alignment with organisational risk appetite and wider security, resilience, and compliance objectives.
• Ensure asset-related risks (including unknown / unauthorised assets, shadow IT/OT, unsupported technologies, EOL/EOS software, and misconfigurations) are identified, recorded, and treated in line with WWU risk management and included in relevant assessments.
• Oversee the design and rollout of a coherent, authoritative asset inventory spanning IT, OT, cloud, software, data, and third-party assets.
• Act as the accountable owner for receiving, reading, and interpreting test reports; ensure findings are risk-assessed, recorded in the risk register, and mapped to assets and owners.
• Ability to work with less technical colleagues and be able to convey technical information in a way that all can understand.
• Experience with operational technology in the utilities sector or other industrial CNI environments will be highly advantageous.

You’ll need to have:

• Networking and infrastructure certifications e.g. Cisco, Microsoft, Linux, Azure (desirable).
• Due to the enhanced safety critical nature of this role, you will also be required to carry out a National Security Vetting Security Clearance check - this will be carried out by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV).

As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary starting at £62,256 rising to £71,142.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs.
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%.
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan.
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans.
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs.
• Enhanced pay for parental leave.
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme.
• Friends & Family Discount for Three Mobile and Broadband.
• Colleague recognition including Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards.
• Living Wage Accredited Employer.
• Award winning employer for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Workplace Health and Wellbeing’ and leading the industry in championing equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Annual salary review.
• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Company Sick Pay.
• In-house Occupational Health Team.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you! To apply, click the link below.

If you would prefer to complete your application form in an alternative format such as Microsoft Word or would like to discuss the role in a little more detail, please contact us at recruitment@wwutilities.co.uk or on 07971 038 982. You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.