Cyber Security Partner

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Working hours 36 • Apply by 10-Apr-2026

As a Security Partner, you will deeply engage within product areas and influence the way security is delivered by them. You will be supported by experts in the team, nonetheless. To achieve this, you are good at secure design principles, cloud security, secure development practices and patterns, application security, secure pipelines, open-source security and related. And not to mention, you are versatile to learn anything that comes along your way.

What is in it for you
We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you - both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

You will be responsible for
• Develop in-depth understanding of the product area, engage with key product and technical people for assessing the security and privacy controls.
• Engage teams in security roadmap discussions and continuously improve security posture of what they build.
• Demonstrate how weaknesses in design or code can be compromised and exploited. You should translate technical risks into business risks and potential impact to Tesco.
• Engage security champions, key developers, and offer technical advisory to support completion of security initiatives, and remediation of vulnerabilities or risks.
• Take part in key product and architecture decisions to embed security.
• Perform product security activities, from the early development of security requirements, architecture reviews, and threat modelling, to strengthening application security, mitigating supply-chain risks, securing secrets, pipelines, reviewing vulnerabilities, and infrastructure security.

You will need
• Hands-on product security experience from developing requirements, reviewing architecture, applying design
principles, to application security, pipeline security, infrastructure, and secure monitoring.
• Experience in leading security initiatives, dev(sec)ops practices with product and engineering teams.
• Experience in threat modelling and designing security/privacy controls to mitigate risks.
• Experience in application security, supply chain security, and using tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, and IAC.
• Experience in reviewing code to spot weaknesses and suggesting mitigations.
• Experience applying industry standards like OWASP ASVS (Application Security Verification Standard), OWASP Top 10, CIS
controls and benchmarks.
• Good understanding of web application, REST APIs, micro services, eventing, modern application frameworks, and
mobile apps.
• Experience with cloud native and hybrid architectures with an emphasis on containerised workloads and Kubernetes.

About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.