Cyber Security Partner; II

Cyber Security Partner (II)

Tesco seeks a trusted security advisor to collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders across our global technology organization, ensuring robust, resilient solutions that protect our business and customers from cyber threats.

• Deeply engage within product areas and influence the way security is delivered.
• Apply secure design principles, cloud security, secure development practices, application security, secure pipelines, open‑source security and related expertise to all phases of the SDLC.
• Support teams in navigating distributed, adaptive, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Act as a trusted advisor, enabling scalable and sustainable security maturity throughout product delivery.

• Hands‑on product security experience: developing requirements, reviewing architecture, applying design principles, pipeline security, infrastructure security and secure monitoring.
• Leadership experience in security initiatives and dev‑sec‑ops practices with engineering teams.
• Threat modelling and designing security/privacy controls to mitigate risks.
• Experience with application security, supply chain security and tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA and IaC.
• Code review experience with mitigation recommendations.
• Knowledge of OWASP ASVS, OWASP Top 10, CIS controls and benchmarks.
• Good understanding of web applications, REST APIs, microservices, eventing, modern frameworks and mobile apps.
• Experience with cloud‑native and hybrid architectures, containerised workloads and Kubernetes.
• Some development experience (Java, cloud, Go, Python) is a plus.
• Degree in computer science or a relevant engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• Desirable experience: GDPR, PCI‑DSS, Azure or AWS cloud security certifications.
• Excellent communication, listening and influencing skills.

• Annual bonus scheme up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday entitlement starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave at full pay after 1 year’s service; 13 weeks statutory maternity/ adoption pay; 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and access to mental‑wellbeing resources.

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop. We serve customers, communities and the planet better every day, acting responsibly and sustainably. We pride ourselves on an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves. We are committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Retail