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We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities.\n\nAbout Kaluza\nKaluza 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.\nOur 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.\nWith 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.\n\nWhat you’ll do\nYou’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.\nAs 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.\nLead 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\nEvolve 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\nHunt threats: Proactively hunt for threats before they become incidents, and work with penetration testers, red teams and bug bounty programmes to find weaknesses, then partner with security engineering and technology teams to close gaps\nOwn detection and tooling: Own our security monitoring and detection capability, including SIEM, EDR and threat intelligence platforms, driving the tooling roadmap, tuning detections to cut noise, and championing automation\nReport on what matters: Define and own Security Operations KPIs and KRIs, and give senior stakeholders clear reporting on the health of the function, including mean time to detect, mean time to respond and coverage trends\nSupport compliance and governance: Make sure our security operations posture supports our regulatory and contractual obligations, acting as a key stakeholder in audits, assessments and customer security reviews, and working closely with Legal, Compliance and Privacy\n\nWhat you’ll bring\nIdeally, you’ll have:\nExperience managing and mentoring engineers and/or operations specialists\nExpertise in incident response, with hands-on experience leading major incidents\nExperience in threat intelligence and hunting, proactively seeking threats in complex, cloud-native environments\nA good working understanding of adversarial techniques (MITRE ATT&CK and similar frameworks), and how you keep up to date\nGenuine curiosity about the security risks introduced by AI systems, such as model abuse, prompt injection and data exfiltration\nFamiliarity with modern security operations tooling\nExperience automating repeatable processes rather than relying on manual effort\nYou’ll also be:\nAn experienced leader with a track record of building and developing security operations teams across multiple geographies and time zones, who leads by example and creates clarity in ambiguous situations\nSomeone teams look to when things get difficult: composed, structured and decisive\nAble to communicate risk clearly and confidently to audiences from engineers to executives\nAble to show how you’ve built strong relationships across engineering, product and compliance\nAble to set out a vision and strategy for how security operations will mature, and win buy-in from your team and stakeholders\nKeen to drive compliance and NFR improvements that balance information security and commercial goals\nReady to challenge the status quo and find ways to make security more efficient and effective with AI\nSkills (SFIA): We use the SFIA framework to assess and develop everyone in security roles. Levels run from 1 to 7.\nEssential:\nLevel 5: Incident management, threat intelligence, vulnerability assessment, security operations, penetration testing, specialist advice\nLevel 4: Performance management\nLevel 3: Information security\nDesirable: Vulnerability research (Level 5), information assurance (Level 5), emerging technology monitoring (Level 4), professional development (Level 4)\n\nOur values\nFive values guide how we work at Kaluza:\nPlay to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale.\nSolve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes.\nBuild trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say.\nOwn the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego.\nGo further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.\n\nOur perks\nTime off and family: 26 days’ holiday [plus/including bank holidays], plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period\nHealth and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests\nPay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% [of salary] to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work\nGrowth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget\nClimate: Furthr, our climate action app\n\nCome as you are\nWe want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. 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