Security Assurance Specialist

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Alexander Mann Solutions Full time

On behalf of Tesco Bank, AMS are now looking for a Security Assurance Specialist. The role is flexible on location but will require some presence in the Glasgow/Edinburgh offices when required. The contract currently has approvals to run up to October of this year.

Tesco Bank prides itself on their range of simple and convenient retail banking and insurance products designed specifically to meet the needs of Tesco customers. They believe that every little help makes a big difference, and by putting the customer first and rewarding their loyalty, they are offering something they believe every bank should.

Job description - the role

This role is part of a major separation programme at Tesco Bank.


As a Security Assurance Specialist you will play a critical role in ensuring the security and integrity of separation/integration activities. This role involves conducting thorough design and project assurance reviews, providing feedback, identifying security faults, and ensuring compliance with security standards. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to guide them through the security assurance process and ensure that all security measures are effectively implemented and maintained.

As a security assurance specialist you will:

  • Conduct detailed design reviews and provide security feedback.
  • Determine the need for and manage penetration tests, ensuring appropriate levels of review and assurance.
  • Engage with third-party vendors for scope management, prerequisite alignment, and paperwork facilitation.
  • Review and interpret penetration test reports, address any issues, and communicate findings to project teams.
  • Conduct infrastructure reviews, vulnerability assessments, and compliance checks.
  • Perform checks to ensure proper patching and maintenance procedures.
  • Utilize a comprehensive security checklist, addressing both simple and complex security questions.
  • Submit security findings to the review board and liaise with risk teams to assess and manage risks.
  • Assist teams in understanding security findings and implementing necessary improvements.
  • Collaborate with project managers, developers, architects, and risk teams to ensure cohesive security integration across all projects.

Candidate profile

  • Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, software development and how systems are built within a banking environment.
  • Ability to demonstrate comprehensive technical security understanding and holistic knowledge of evaluating solution security.
  • Broad knowledge encompassing both deep technical understanding and higher-level security perspectives.
  • Proficient in understanding specific security issues and extrapolating their impact to the organization.
  • Experience in interpreting third-party penetration tests.
  • Ability to make informed decisions on project security risks and escalate issues appropriately.
  • Experience in assurance-focused roles, with minimal hands-on technical or code review work.
  • Ability to quickly grasp security models and identify associated risks.
  • Strong adaptability and capacity to work with various technologies.
  • Excellent communication skills to effectively collaborate with other teams within the bank (project managers, developers, architects, risk teams, etc.)

About the client

Why Tesco Bank?

At Tesco Bank everyone is welcome, we value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger in achieving our goals. It's important to us that we make sure you're supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

Next steps

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

Our client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

Please note that for the duration of this assignment you will be working as an external resource engaged by AMS.

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