Security Engineer
| Posting date: | 09 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £40,000 to £45,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Location: | Poole, Dorset |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Unicard Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
About Unicard
As the leading provider of software solutions for public and private sector transport management and smart ticketing, for 20 years Unicard has been trusted by millions of passengers to get them where they need to be. Today, our solutions can be found throughout the UK, processing approximately 4 billion transactions a year. We estimate that 1 in 4 public transport journeys in the UK are powered by a Unicard system at some point.
About the Role
The Security Engineer plays a critical role in safeguarding Unicard's products, infrastructure, customer data and physical security. The successful candidate will be designing, implementing, and maintaining robust security processes and measures to protect Unicard’s systems and data against constant evolving cyber threats and breaches. The Security Engineer will work closely with the engineering, dev-ops and IT teams to ensure that systems are compliant with industry security standards and best practices.
The role requires management and control of physical security across the three locations, including CCTV management, entry access control and building security management.
The Security Engineer is required to work closely with the Unicard Compliance Manager to own all relevant policies and processes, ensuring best practice and governance is always maintained. The role will require responsibility for any security compliance related audits and frameworks including but not limited to:
• ISO 27001
• ISO 22301
• Cyber Essentials +
• AWS Well Architected Framework / Cloud Operating Model
• NIST Cyber Security Framework
• PCI-DSS v4
• GDPR/ Data Protection
A key requirement of the role is to provide a weekly report on all security related activities, risks, vulnerabilities and challenges, along with; a monthly executive summary of the aforementioned reports, including the current security landscape. The reports should include professional recommendations and timelines to remedy any risk/vulnerability that has been identified.
The Security Engineer will report directly to the Head of Operations, ensuring a direct route of escalation to the CEO and Senior management team.
Benefits of working for Unicard
• Competitive remuneration package
• Company funded Healthcare plan
• Life Assurance
• Company pension
• Hybrid working (minimum 3 days office attendance)
• 2 days per annum paid volunteer days
• Modern working environment and friendly atmosphere
• Knowledge sharing (working with experienced professionals)
• Autonomy and trust in decision-making
• Office in a central location
• Regular team building and office events
• Career development
• Charitable organisation
The role may require additional activities and/or responsibilities deemed appropriate as per the business needs.
As the leading provider of software solutions for public and private sector transport management and smart ticketing, for 20 years Unicard has been trusted by millions of passengers to get them where they need to be. Today, our solutions can be found throughout the UK, processing approximately 4 billion transactions a year. We estimate that 1 in 4 public transport journeys in the UK are powered by a Unicard system at some point.
About the Role
The Security Engineer plays a critical role in safeguarding Unicard's products, infrastructure, customer data and physical security. The successful candidate will be designing, implementing, and maintaining robust security processes and measures to protect Unicard’s systems and data against constant evolving cyber threats and breaches. The Security Engineer will work closely with the engineering, dev-ops and IT teams to ensure that systems are compliant with industry security standards and best practices.
The role requires management and control of physical security across the three locations, including CCTV management, entry access control and building security management.
The Security Engineer is required to work closely with the Unicard Compliance Manager to own all relevant policies and processes, ensuring best practice and governance is always maintained. The role will require responsibility for any security compliance related audits and frameworks including but not limited to:
• ISO 27001
• ISO 22301
• Cyber Essentials +
• AWS Well Architected Framework / Cloud Operating Model
• NIST Cyber Security Framework
• PCI-DSS v4
• GDPR/ Data Protection
A key requirement of the role is to provide a weekly report on all security related activities, risks, vulnerabilities and challenges, along with; a monthly executive summary of the aforementioned reports, including the current security landscape. The reports should include professional recommendations and timelines to remedy any risk/vulnerability that has been identified.
The Security Engineer will report directly to the Head of Operations, ensuring a direct route of escalation to the CEO and Senior management team.
Benefits of working for Unicard
• Competitive remuneration package
• Company funded Healthcare plan
• Life Assurance
• Company pension
• Hybrid working (minimum 3 days office attendance)
• 2 days per annum paid volunteer days
• Modern working environment and friendly atmosphere
• Knowledge sharing (working with experienced professionals)
• Autonomy and trust in decision-making
• Office in a central location
• Regular team building and office events
• Career development
• Charitable organisation
The role may require additional activities and/or responsibilities deemed appropriate as per the business needs.
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