Principal Cyber Security Specialist

Title: Principal Cyber Security SpecialistContract Type: PermanentLocation: Bradford Chatham Petersfield LondonWorking 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 where We OfferWe care about your wellbeing not just your work. Our benefits are designed to support your life your health and your growth:Holidays: 25 days (rising to 30) buy/sell up to 5 days swap up to 4 bank : Up to 10% employer Leave: Enhanced maternity (post-probation) 4 weeks paternity and paid neonatal & carers : Work abroad for up to 20 days a year in approved Leave: Your birthday off : 2 paid volunteering : Access to LinkedIn Learning for all Wellbeing: Free Snoop Premium : Self-pay Den plan & optional Private Medical RoleYou and your TeamAs 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 working under Zero trust into the Cyber Security Manager you will work closely with the security engineering threat intel software engineering Cloud engineering and security operations teams to design build and optimize security tooling ensuring efficient and scalable security operations across our a Principal Cyber Security Specialist you will:Support and Mentor members of the security teams act as an escalation point for technical issues for junior staff and apply security design principals to high low-level designs and patterns in conjunction with Information security assessments of tools and controls identifying gaps and implementing security engineering team efforts for delivery and maintenance of security tooling ensuring alignment with overall security architecture and operational and maintain cloud-native security solutions in Azure AWS and GCP (the latter an advantage but not required) ensuring security compliance and and implement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform Ansible or similar technologies to deploy and manage security build and maintain security tooling and integrations that enhance security operations threat intelligence and detection with security teams to develop and optimize security workflows automation playbooks and integrations between security tools SIEMs SOAR platforms EDR/XDR and case management and optimize log and telemetry ingestion aggregation enrichment correlation and alerting workflows across multiple data with the Cloud and DevOps teams to embed security into IaC CI/CD pipelines ensuring secure code deployment with automated quality and security gates (Container vulnerability secrets detection etc).Embed security controls monitoring and compliance automation across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for internally developed applications. As well as for low-code solutions (Power Platformsalesforcemulesoft etc) (SAST DAST dependency scanning etc).Build and maintain Application security controls for example SaaS SPM WAF and Were Looking For5 years of experience in Security Engineering Security Automation or DevSecOps hands-on experience with design and implementation of security tooling and experience of security architecture design in scripting and deploying and maintaining SIEMs (Rapid7 IDR Splunk Sentinel etc).Strong cloud security engineering knowledge in Azure and AWS with GCP an advantage but not with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform Ansible understanding of DevOps principles and experience securing CI/CD with container security (Docker Kubernetes) and implementing security controls for microservices with threat intelligence platforms (TIPs) and their integration with security problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative we areAt Vanquis our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking that helps people make the most of lifes opportunities. Founded in 1880 were now a FTSE All Share specialist bank supporting over 1.7 million UK customers with responsible tailored proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work and recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UKs Best Employers 2025 ranked top 50 nationwide and seventh in Banking & Financial Services. Were also proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant actively supporting veterans reservists and military by our values caring for people pulling together finding better ways and getting the right things done were building a workplace where colleagues feel connected valued and empowered. Alongside competitive pay we offer meaningful benefits salary reviews a discretionary bonus scheme and continued invested in your development too. With the right support and hands-on learning youll grow your skills shape your career and realise your We HireWe use AI to help organise applications and surface early matches but all decisions are made by humans. Please apply authentically especially during OpportunitiesVanquis Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value everyones unique background identity and experience and were committed to a workplace where all colleagues can you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process please contact and well be happy to help.