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Information Security Manager
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Weve built strong foundations and we need someone to own this domain full-time: to keep raising the bar, strengthen whats in place and embed security into the way the whole organisation works. This is a hands-on role in a fast-growing e-commerce business where security is treated as a priority, not an afterthought.
What Youll Do
Security Operations & Tooling
- Own and continuously strengthen our cloud security posture across AWS as our primary platform, with oversight of our Azure and GCP environments.
- Manage and optimise our WAF, bot management and DDoS protection to keep our platform secure and performant.
- Drive vulnerability management across cloud infrastructure and application code, ensuring timely prioritisation and resolution.
- Lead incident response coordinate detection, investigation, containment and post-incident reviews.
- Maintain and evolve security monitoring, alerting and operational runbooks to ensure consistent coverage.
- Governance, Compliance & Policy
- Own and evolve the companys information security policy framework, ensuring policies remain current, practical and enforced.
- Drive UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and PCI-DSS compliance in partnership with the Technology Director and development team.
- Lead the security dimension of vendor and third-party risk assessments.
- Deliver clear, confident security reporting to senior leadership and due diligence audiences.
- Risk Management & Security Culture
- Maintain and develop the technology risk register, running regular risk assessments aligned to business continuity planning.
- Champion security awareness across the business through training programmes, phishing simulations and practical guidance.
- Evaluate the security implications of new tools, integrations and emerging technologies including AI-assisted development.
- Contribute to architecture and design reviews, ensuring security is built in from the start.
Required
- Experience in an information security role (Security Manager, Security Analyst, GRC lead or similar), ideally within a technology or e-commerce environment.
- Working knowledge of AWS security services such as Security Hub, GuardDuty, IAM, CloudTrail and KMS. AWS is our primary cloud provider and hands-on familiarity is important.
- Practical understanding of UK GDPR, DPA 2018 and PCI-DSS compliance requirements.
- Experience building or maturing security governance policies, risk registers, incident response procedures.
- Ability to communicate security risk and posture clearly to both technical teams and senior leadership.
- Hands-on comfort with security tooling, log analysis and vulnerability triage this isnt a role where you only write documents.
- Relevant certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.
- Experience with WAF and bot management in a production e-commerce context.
- Familiarity with SIEM, SOAR or security automation tooling.
- Exposure to ISO 27001 implementation or SOC 2 readiness programmes.
- Experience with multi-cloud security across Azure and GCP.
- Background in e-commerce, retail or DTC brands.
What Success Looks Like
In your first six months youll have:
- Taken full ownership of our security tooling and established a clear, measurable improvement plan.
- Built a structured vulnerability management lifecycle with defined SLAs and visible progress.
- Strengthened our policy framework and set direction toward a recognised maturity framework.
- Delivered security reporting that gives senior leadership a clear and confident view of our posture.
- Launched a security awareness programme with measurable engagement across the business. xbpsjku
- Built strong working relationships across the technology team and the wider business.
Behaviours & Traits
- Commercially wired - you think in LTV, contribution margin, and payback periods, not just campaign metrics
- Ownership mindset - you don't wait to be told; you identify the gap and go close it
- Comfortable with ambiguity - the playbook doesn't fully exist yet; you'll write it
- Bias for testing - you run experiments, read the data, and act on it quickly
- Customer-obsessed without being soft - you understand what makes Protein Works' community tick and you use that commercially
- Location:
- Birkenhead
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Information Technology
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