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Aurora Energy Research
Information Security Business Partner
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Description
Hybrid requirements: 3 days per week in the office.
Application questions:
Are you a British citizen? If you are not a British citizen, please state your current visa status.
Do you currently require visa sponsorship?
Will you require visa sponsorship in the future?
What are your salary expectations for this position? Please state your gross, annual salary expectations in GBP.
Please inform us of your notice period.
May we consider your application for a different role within Aurora Energy Research?
Aurora Energy Research is based in Oxford and currently we are benefiting from a hybrid working model, working three days from the office and two days from home, as per our policy. Would you be open working in a hybrid basis?
Are you ready to raise the bar on information security and contribute to making Aurora cyber resilient?
We are looking for an Information Security Business Partner to join our Information Security team at our Oxford headquarters. You will be working across core business functions including finance, human resources, and facilities bringing your full self, including your security knowledge and expertise to these teams.
As Information Security Business Partner at Aurora Energy Research, you will enable you colleagues to better understand information risk, improve the security posture of our organisation, ensure secure operational practices, and support compliance by taking ownership of internal and external audits. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaboration, and can communicate with stakeholders at all levels. You are solution-oriented and focus on getting smart ideas into the hands of our teams. You enjoy working simultaneously on various initiatives and moving between teams.
Key Responsibilities
Cultivate security culture. Work with colleagues in your partner areas, be the security champion that strives to prioritize sustainable controls and drives real risk reduction outcome
Manage risks. Lead your colleagues in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks by conducting regular risk assessments and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Produce and review briefing packs including relevant management information and assessing the aggregated risk profile
Ensure compliance. Take ownership of our information security compliance programme by leading your colleagues through information security activities including audit and risk, creating transparency with meaningful metrics. Help to solve business challenges by developing solutions to mitigate risk and non-conformities
Support Governance. Constantly improve the organisation’s understanding and adoption of information security policies and procedures in alignment with industry standards, regulations. Fostering a culture of security awareness across the organisation
Work together. Collaborate and work with teams in your partner areas. Help to solve problems and not just calling out issues. Take ownership of assurance activities. Operate across the business to create alignment with security objectives
Ensure security thought leadership. Keep up on security best practice and be a continuous learner. Guide and define our security policies, procedures, and standards end-to-end, be recognized as a point of escalation and subject matter expert for information technology and data risk
What we are looking for
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
Working knowledge and understanding of risks and controls associated with global security standards like SOC2 or ISO 27001 as well as regulatory requirements
Experience in information and cyber security risk management and audit or control frameworks
Excellent stakeholder management skills
A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We want you to coach other team members on secure systems management practices, design principles, and implementation patterns
Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn technologies and patterns quickly
Ability to see the long term. We don’t want you to sacrifice the future for the present. We want you to choose technologies and approaches based on the end goals
Clarity of thought. We operate quickly and efficiently, and we value people who are economical with their time and clear with their opinions
Desired qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
Awareness of relevant legislation, for example the Data Protection Act and UK GDPR
Graduate calibre or comparable working experience with relevant qualifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA
What we offer
Some of the benefits we include are:
Private Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Parental Support
Salary-Exchange Pension
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Local Oxford Discounts
Cycle-to-work Scheme
Flu Jabs
At AER, we are committed to offering flexibility in the way we work. Most of our roles are hybrid with a mix of in-office/home working and potentially adjustable working hours. Let’s discuss what works for you and AER during the interview process.
The Company is committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavourable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
The successful candidate would start as soon as possible. The team will review applications as they are received. Salary will be competitive with experience.
To apply, please submit your Résumé / CV, a personal summary, your salary expectations and please inform us of your notice period.
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Culture overview
Our culture is entrepreneurial, dynamic, and progressive. Underpinned by strongly-held values and based on a passionate commitment to independent research, we always strive to go to the next level in our analysis and service for our clients.
Our values speak to our mindset, our approach, and our direction. As a company, we thrive on open feedback, and we take on a trial-and-error approach to achieve rapid progress in building great things.
With this, we take our work very seriously, but we maintain a friendly and laid-back atmosphere in the office where you can go over and have a conversation with anyone in the company. Despite our successes, we have a long journey ahead to fulfil our potential.
A rapidly growing organisation creates unique and powerful development opportunities for our team, so we are always looking at what’s next!
We want to hear from you if you:
-> thrive in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.
-> love to discover and pursue new paths to improvement. -> are devoted to securing great results with an international team.
-> are driven to achieve positive change in global energy.
Employee benefits
Cycle To Work
Enhanced parental leave
Enhanced sick leave
Flexible Working
Free Food
Laptop
Learning/Development days
Pension
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Clubs & Meetups
Free Coffee
Friday Drinks
Open Plan
Social Events
Team Building Days
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Stuart Tricklebank
Director Software Engineering
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Continuous delivery
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