Cyber Security Partner

About the role

About Security Partners team

We are the trusted security advisors for Tesco Technology. Our purpose is to collaborate seamlessly with the product and engineering teams, leveraging our deep expertise in cyber security to design and implement robust, resilient solutions that protect our business and customers from cyber threats.

We are a dynamic and expanding global team of 15+ experts, serving as the strategic link between the wider security group and software engineering teams that develop cutting-edge services at scale to support the retail business.

Tesco Technology comprises of several technology domains with over 100+ teams, each entrusted with their own security. These teams enjoy significant autonomy, balanced by the responsibility to make customer-centric decisions and security. Rather than imposing controls through rigid processes and security gates, we empower these engineering teams to innovate by providing security guidance that helps them make informed decisions for Tesco. Encouragingly, these teams are enthusiastic partners in enhancing security, working more efficiently, and integrating security into every aspect of their ways of working. This collaborative approach sets us apart from traditional security teams. We proudly identify ourselves as Security Partners, not security police, emphasizing our role as the “trusted advisors” rather than enforcers.

Partners engage key people in engineering to make security contextual and frictionless. After all, security is a journey and there is no one-size-fits-all.

Join the team and be part of this exciting journey!

What is in it for you

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.

Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.

Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.

Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.

Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.

Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.

Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.

Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.

Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.

You will be responsible for

The Role

As a Security Partner, you will deeply engage within product areas and influence the way security is delivered by them. You will be supported by experts in the team, nonetheless. To achieve this, you are good at secure design principles, cloud security, secure development practices and patterns, application security, secure pipelines, open-source security and related. And not to mention, you are versatile to learn anything that comes along your way.

Being the trusted advisor

As enterprise applications become more distributed, adaptive to technological advancements, and run from hybrid infrastructure, teams need to navigate through different complexities and make key security decisions along the way. A trusted security advisor empowers teams to achieve scalable and sustainable security maturity throughout the SDLC (software development lifecycle) process.

In this job, I am accountable for: Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships with engineering, product, architecture and programme stakeholders.
• Develop in-depth understanding of the product area, engage with key product and technical people for assessing the security and privacy controls.
• Define and document security requirements for new products, programmes and technology initiatives.
• Engage teams in security roadmap discussions, establish shared security objectives and and continuously improve security posture through partnership and collaboration
• Demonstrate how weaknesses in design or code can be compromised and exploited. You should translate technical risks into business risks and potential impact to Tesco.
• Engage security champions, key developers, and offer technical advisory to support completion of security initiatives, and remediation of vulnerabilities or risks.
• Take part in key product and architecture decisions to embed security.
• Perform product security activities, from the early development of security requirements, architecture reviews, and threat modelling, to strengthening application security, mitigating supply-chain risks, securing secrets, pipelines, reviewing vulnerabilities, and infrastructure security.
• Develop and propose security controls or compensating measures as needed. Continuously seek both tactical and strategic solutions to enhance security.
• Lead teams on raising the bar on security by design, and security by default.
• Guide teams on application security, API security, cloud security and infrastructure security.
• Advise on secure adoption of AI, GenAI and agentic technologies.
• Assess security risks associated with AI-powered products and services.
• Assist/support adoption of new capabilities to enhance security across people, process, and tools.
• Be ready to code. If you can raise a PR (pull request) to resolve a security issue, you have the freedom to do so.
• Participate in assurance activities like security testing, purple testing, assurance, auditing.
• Empower the teams you work with, but also challenge the status-quo.
• Be an advocate for good security, take part in strengthening organisation standards and policies.
• You are committed to continuous improvement, seizing opportunities, and driving change for the team.
• Contribute to standards, reference architectures, patterns and reusable security guidance.

You will need

To excel in this position, we expect you to have the following:

• Hands-on product security experience from developing control requirements, reviewing architecture, applying design principles, to application security, pipeline security, infrastructure, and secure monitoring.
• Experience in leading security initiatives, dev(sec)ops practices with product and engineering teams.
• Experience in threat modelling and designing security/privacy controls to mitigate risks.
• Experience in application security, supply chain security, and using tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, and IAC.
• Experience in reviewing code to spot weaknesses and suggesting mitigations.
• Experience applying industry standards like OWASP ASVS (Application Security Verification Standard), OWASP Top 10, CIS controls and benchmarks.
• Good understanding of web applications, REST APIs, micro services, eventing, modern application frameworks, and mobile apps.
• Experience with cloud native and hybrid architectures with an emphasis on containerised workloads and Kubernetes.
• Some development experience is always a plus - Java, cloud, Golang, python. You do not need to “be a developer” but we need you to understand the implications of security on engineering velocity.
• Experience in GenAI, LLMs, AI architecture, prompt engineering and Agentic AI.
• Stay current with emerging threats, technologies and industry trends.
• Degree in computer science / information systems or engineering discipline.
• Experience with regulations like GDPR, PCI-DSS is desirable.
• Azure or AWS cloud security certifications is desirable.
• Excellent communicator, listener, influencer.

About us

At Tesco, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect, valuing individuality and uniqueness to create a true sense of belonging. Diversity and inclusion are deeply embedded in our values-we treat people how they want to be treated. Our goal is for all colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work, and we are committed to helping them thrive. Across the Tesco group, we are building an inclusive workplace that actively celebrates the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn contribute to the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

At Tesco Bengaluru, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, highlighting our commitment to creating a supportive environment for individuals with disabilities. We are dedicated to offering equal opportunities for all candidates and encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. Our recruitment process is fully accessible, and we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments during interviews. If you need any accommodations to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know. We are here to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed.

We also believe in fostering a work environment where you can excel both professionally and personally. Our hybrid model allows you to work flexibly-spend 60% of your week collaborating in person with colleagues at our office locations or local sites, and the rest of the time working remotely. We understand that everyone’s life journey is unique, whether you are starting your career, pursuing passions, or navigating life changes, and we are here to support you. Flexibility is a core part of our culture, and we encourage open conversations about how we can best accommodate your needs, so talk to us throughout your application process on the support required.

When you join Tesco Bengaluru in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.