
Senior Security Engineer
OVO Energy
Company Overview
OVO Energy
Bristol, United Kingdom
2009
Business Model
Energy
OVO Energy provides renewable energy solutions, focusing on electricity and gas supply to residential customers. They are committed to offering sustainable energy options and innovative technology to enhance energy efficiency.
Their revenue primarily comes from energy sales, including electricity and gas, as well as additional services such as smart home technology and energy management solutions.
Locations & Geography
OVO Energy operates primarily in the United Kingdom, with a significant customer base across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. They are focused on expanding their services to promote renewable energy usage throughout the UK.
Company Culture
OVO Energy's mission is to drive the transition to a sustainable energy system. They value innovation, customer satisfaction, and environmental responsibility, aiming to empower customers to make informed energy choices.
The work environment at OVO Energy is described as collaborative and dynamic, fostering creativity and teamwork. They encourage employees to contribute ideas and solutions that align with their sustainability goals.
OVO Energy invests in employee development through various training programs and career advancement opportunities. They focus on enhancing skills related to renewable energy and customer service to support their workforce's growth.
Activities & Projects
Recently, OVO Energy has been involved in projects aimed at increasing the adoption of electric vehicles and enhancing home energy efficiency through smart technology. They are also working on initiatives to reduce carbon emissions across their operations.
OVO Energy has introduced innovative products such as the OVO Energy app, which allows customers to monitor their energy usage in real-time and manage their accounts efficiently. They are also exploring advancements in battery storage technology to support renewable energy integration.
OVO Energy is committed to sustainability, sourcing 100% renewable electricity for their customers. They actively promote energy conservation and have initiatives in place to offset carbon emissions associated with their operations.
Career Opportunities
Typical job openings at OVO Energy include roles in customer service, energy management, technology development, and sustainability. They seek individuals who are passionate about renewable energy and customer engagement.
OVO Energy offers a range of benefits including flexible working arrangements, health and wellness programs, and opportunities for professional development. They prioritize employee well-being and work-life balance.
Contact Information
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Job Description
At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.
Teamworking for the planet
Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you'll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here's how:
We're hiring creators and challengers who deliver high-impact, well-engineered solutions. Every role we're hiring puts people at the heart of our security strategy and uses technology and operational processes to build a resilient and performant business. The Path to Zero is paved with secure technology!
This role in a nutshell
As a Senior Security Engineer - Security Data Specialist, you will work closely with fellow security engineers to design, build, and deploy data solutions that drive organisation-wide security value. To do this, you will build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data models within data warehouses. An example pipeline being ingesting data from multiple security and technology observability tools to gather, analyse, synthesise, and develop visualisations and reporting in service of continuous improvement of security controls. Your solutions will enable cyber defence, attack surface and security controls engineers to proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to amplify weaknesses and drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is motivated to use data to drive security improvements, and best practices across a business with wide-ranging impact, and loves working in collaborative, and supportive environments.
Your key outcomes will be
- Help architect, design, and deploy new features, and functionality in a unified OVO security data platform to enable security engineers to optimise and automate cyber defence, attack surface and security controls assurance processes.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest security data and AI trends, tools, and technologies to ensure the team's technical approach is innovative.
- Foster an inclusive team environment where everyone feels valued and excited to contribute.
- Communicate optimally with collaborators to explain concepts and drive informed decision making.
Within your first 3 months month you'll
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of our existing security data sources, data pipelines, warehouse, and security operations principles.
- Contribute to the development and enhancing of our security data and AI model architectures
- Guide and educate other teams about effective security data and AI practices and opportunities.
Systems
Google Cloud Platform services, GitHub, Looker, Wiz, Google SecOps, Crowdstrike
You'll be a successful Senior Security Engineer - Security Data Specialist at OVO if you ...
- Data automation and AI-enablement: Develops tooling to automate security tasks (e.g. triaging, routing and tracking findings from vulnerability scanners, alert handlers, compliance monitoring and evidence collection). Can contribute to security-focused codebases. Publishes automation processes or AI tooling to code repositories or an app store. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and data models within data warehouses.
- Secure development: Able to build, test and deploy single components in a system with minimal support, and understand how the component fits into the wider architecture. Configure secure cloud environments (GCP). Can describe how code, CI/CD and cloud security posture management (CSPM) tooling works.
- Decision support and behaviour change: Design and build decision-support and training tools that actively account for human factors. Design and develop intuitive communications, dashboards and reports that guide users toward key insights and minimise cognitive load. Analyse user interaction data to identify where decision-makers struggle and propose concrete design improvements. Proactively reframe security questions or metrics to mitigate common biases, such as presenting data in terms of both gains and losses to avoid framing effects.
- Mentor Junior Engineers: Actively mentor associate and mid-level security engineers. Provide technical guidance on security and data concepts and tools, review their work (e.g. assessment reports, proposed controls), share knowledge and experience, and support their professional development within the team.
- Community of Practice: Contribute to the security engineering Community of Practice (CoP) by leading discussions, sharing practices, offering firsthand experience to the wider community, engaging in knowledge exchange / cross-pollination to further your craft. Create content and and individually contribute to the stated successful outcomes for the CoP.
Let's talk about what's in it for you
We'll pay you between ??53,000 and ??70,000, depending on your specific skills and experience.
We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.
You'll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal.
We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO...and there's flex pay. We'll give you 9% Flex Pay on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash.
Here's a taster of what's on offer:
For starters, you'll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
For your health
With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
For your wellbeing
With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
For your lifestyle
With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
For your home
Get up to ??400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
For your commute
Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.
For your Belonging
To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other's experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.
Oh, and one last thing...
We'd be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it's just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we're looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We'd still love to hear from you!
If you have any additional requirements, there's a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible.
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October 3, 2025
Full Time
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October 3, 2025
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GBP 53k–70k yearly
- Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Bristol, United Kingdom
- London, United Kingdom
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