Security Operations Lead

Job description

Location: Bristol or London, UK (hybrid, three days a week in the office) Level: Engineering Manager (PL1) Team: Information & Cyber Security, within Platform & Security Engineering Salary: £70,000 – £87,000 + discretionary bonus Contract: Permanent Reporting to: Head of Information Security Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities. About Kaluza Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life. With teams across Europe, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen. What you’ll do You’ll join the Information & Cyber Security team, a core part of our Platform & Security Engineering organisation. Security at Kaluza isn’t a silo, so you’ll work closely with colleagues across security engineering, identity and access management, platform engineering and enterprise technical services. As Security Operations Lead, you’ll own and grow the Security Operations function, leading a team across the UK and Australia. You’ll be the senior escalation point for security incidents, a calm and authoritative presence under pressure, and the person who keeps our operational security evolving to meet new threats, including those that come with being an AI-enabled business. Lead the team: Build, mentor and manage the performance of a Security Operations team across the UK and Australia, creating an environment of continuous learning, clear ownership and psychological safety Evolve incident response: Develop our incident response processes, especially around AI, maintain playbooks and standard operating procedures, and run exercises that build team confidence when it matters most Hunt threats: Proactively hunt for threats before they become incidents, and work with penetration testers, red t…