Cyber Operations Engineer

Cyber Operations Engineer

🌏 Manchester

💷 £+ Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme   

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week - hybrid)   

💖 Our perks   

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love. 
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family. 
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc 
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future. 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year. 
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.  
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers. 

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗    

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!    

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 6 years, we’ve supported 10,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2025 is shaping up to be another exciting year!    

🙌 The Role   

We are looking for a Cyber Operations Engineer to play a critical role in maintaining the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of data at Oodle Financial Services Limited (t/a Oodle Car Finance). 

This role will be responsible for leading the day-to-day 1st line cyber security operations, working closely with third parties and technical teams. You will also lead the execution of remediation activities following the identification of vulnerabilities and security incidents, ensuring Oodle remains protected against evolving threats. 

What you’ll be getting up to:  

• Implement, Maintain and Optimise Security Tools. Deploy, configure, and maintain cybersecurity tools in line with Oodle’s security objectives. Ensure ongoing effectiveness of implemented security tools and drive continuous improvement and automation. 
• Security Monitoring and Alerting. Oversee and respond to key vulnerabilities, threats, and alerts from the security toolset. Drive the security monitoring strategy, collaborating with MSSPs and technical teams, to ensure appropriate scope of monitoring aligned to Oodle’s threats and compliance requirements. 
• Lead Security Investigations & Incident Response. Take ownership of security incidents, coordinating with MSSPs and technical teams to ensure timely and effective resolution. Support incidents with threat hunting and root cause analysis.  
• Vulnerability Management & Penetration Testing Oversight. Supervise vulnerability scanning and penetration testing activities, working with technical teams to ensure timely remediation of identified vulnerabilities.  
• Threat Intelligence and Hunting. Manage appropriate threat intelligence feeds and proactively look for threats that are applicable to Oodle’s attack surface.  
• Technical Security Advice. Provide technical security guidance to project and technical teams, to ensure technical security requirements are delivered throughout the software development lifecycle and / or onboarding SaaS solutions. 

You’ll be a great fit if you have:  

• A minimum of three years proven experience in a 1st line cyber security operations role. 
• Evidence of successfully implementing 1st line cyber security technologies and processes. 
• Experience with incident response methodologies and tools. 
• Knowledge of threat intelligence analysis and threat hunting techniques. 
• Ability to communicate complex technical information clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.   
• Commitment to fostering and embedding a strong cyber security risk culture. 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 

Desirable: 

• Certified Information Security qualification (e.g. CISSP, CISA, CISM, CompTIA SecurityX). 
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, M365, Sentinel and Defender products. 
• Knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes. 
• Experience in handling cyber crisis and cyber incidents that have materialised into data breaches. 

👩‍💻 Hiring Process    

• ☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins)  
• 📹 Face to Face Interview (1 hr)  
• 🏢 Stakeholder Interview (1 hr)  

💚 Our Values     

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.     

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.   
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.   
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.   
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.   
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do.  

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.    

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.   

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email careers@oodlefinance.com . 

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