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Security Specialist

Job details
Posting date: 31 March 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 30 April 2024
Location: Edinburgh, EH12 1HQ
Company: NatWest Group
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: R-00229905

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Summary

Join us as a Security Specialist

  • Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider bank in building and operating secure services that protect both colleagues and customers
  • You’ll act as a subject matter expert in a security related field, making sure that the security implications of the backlog are understood in the right way, building security early into design
  • You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work

What you'll do

As a Security Specialist, you’ll work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust security is continuously considered and incorporated at every stage, programme increment and feature team delivery throughout the development lifecycle and through to support.

You’ll collaborate with feature teams and participate in story refinement, sprint planning and retrospective sessions, establishing a culture of innovation and strategic thinking that makes sure that the bank has knowledge of, and opportunities to exploit, the latest developments in your area of specialism.

You’ll also be:

  • Making sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
  • Encouraging the identification of ideas and driving the delivery of initiatives that will reduce cost and simplify the bank
  • Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank

The skills you'll need

You’ll need experience and knowledge of technology security controls within the security technology specialism along with an understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

  • Hashicorp subject matter expert, with an emphasis in provisioning Vault via Terraform

  • The ability to write technical issues in business terms

  • Analytical and problem solving skills

  • Knowledge and experience of the legal and regulatory environment

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