Senior Security Operations Engineer, Octopus Energy Group
Kraken Technologies
Entech company
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Entech company
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
Octopus Energy's mission is to speed the transition to a sustainable, low carbon future through renewable energy and technology whilst putting customers at the heart of everything they do.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for mid-level (>2 years experience) or senior engineers to join us at Kraken Technologies.
- The role may suit people with SOC experience who are looking to focus more on the engineering side, people with an engineering background that want to specialise in security and people with a TechOps background that would like to focus on security tooling
- Strong background in information security and technology, with an understanding of security best practices and standards
- Previous experience in working in security teams maintaining and improving security logging, monitoring and alerting including playbooks, and indecent response
- Experience in managing security tooling inline with best practice, such as:
- Endpoint security (e.g. EDR, MDM)
- Email SecuritySIEM and SOAR systems (or anything related to logging, monitoring and automation)
- Vulnerability management tooling (e.g. vulnerability scanning, CSPM, CNAPP)
- (Note: we do not expect any candidate to have experience in all the above tooling, just experience in some and an interest in learning about others)
Desirable
- Security certifications (any of the famous abbreviations)
- Certifications from cloud providers’ certification paths
- Security qualifications (e.g. apprenticeships or degrees)
- Strong skills in creating high-quality, comprehensive security documentation
- Familiarity with AWS services and experience in managing cloud security services
- Experience using logging tools (whether this was a SIEM system or not) to generate alerts and reports
- Understanding of information security standards such as ISO 27001
- Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
What the job involves
- You’ll be part of a small but growing security team with a wide range of active and planned projects across the entire Octopus Energy Group. There will be plenty of opportunity to leverage your experience and expertise, and also learn new things
- You will be supporting the following activities:
- Maintaining Security logging, monitoring and alerting process and tooling
- Responding to security alerts, improving detections and reducing false positives
- Operating Security tooling inline with best practices and internal requirements
- Assisting TechOps and other teams in maintaining their services in line with good security practises
- Supporting security incident response, remediation and root cause analysis
- Helping to manage AWS native security services
- Participate in the company's information security program, contributing to the development and implementation of security policies and procedures
- Collaborate with colleagues across various teams, such as Security Assurance, Security Operations, and Security Engineering, to support the execution of security strategies and initiatives
- Supporting the implementation of security processes and requirementsKeep up-to-date with emerging security threats, technologies, and industry trends to help enhance the organisation's security approach
Our take
According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and they now supply energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.
Octopus Energy further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract so they can leave at any time to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. They aim to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of their tariffs use 100% green electricity, while not being more expensive than their competitors' non-green tariffs.
They are continually creating innovative new products. For example, Octopus Tracker where prices changes daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges they face is that their products are more complex than their competitors, given they use 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. They're exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.
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Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$800m
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Jul 2022
$225m
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Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
- Flexi working environment
- Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Equity Option Scheme - Everyone owns part of what we’re building with shares
- Tech - We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
- Money Coach - You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach. They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
- Wellbeing - Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available. Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Octopus staff!
Company values
- Autonomy
- Empathy
- Innovation
- Impact
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Greg Jackson
(CEO)Previously Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.
James Eddison
(CTO)Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.
Stuart Jackson
(CFO)Previously Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.
Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.
Diversity & Inclusion at Octopus Energy Group
- Unconscious Bias workshops for interviewers and hiring managers
- Octopus Energy Equality Foundation
- Partnership with the Saracens High School - inspiring future generations - https://www.saracens.com/powering-futures-together-saracens-high-school-octopus-energy/
- Octopus Energy Internships - https://octopus.energy/blog/ada-lovelace-tech-internship/
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