Job Description
At Starling we love building things, creating new stuff, learning new technologies and working with others across all areas of the business to bring brilliant products and features to life. We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult technical problems, we’d love to hear from you.
As a member of the Starling Cyber Security team, you will be working with some of the industry’s most talented cyber security professionals to protect Starling customers, company assets and systems using the latest technologies and techniques.
The primary objective for this role is to collaborate with, support, and guide Starling’s engineering and operations functions to ensure our services are designed, developed and operated securely.
As a member of our Identity and Access Management team you will:
- directly interact with multiple areas of the business to understand business and technical requirements,
- define the scope and approach to Identity-related controls and technical implementations (including undertaking appropriate research), and
- deliver technical solutions and designs, including alignment to our risk framework.
In addition, we understand the importance of knowledge and expertise remaining current and you shall support the continued advancement of our identity posture through research, design and implementation of new solutions, including automation. You will actively contribute to us remaining current with Cyber and Identity trends through research and development. Everyone’s opinion matters and we embrace a range of perspectives through inception to delivery.
This is an opportunity to join the growing Identity and Access Management team, where you will own projects, drive initiatives and see an impact in how we operate - both internally and with customers. We believe in small, empowered teams that are able to adapt quickly to emerging threats and technology. We work closely with other teams and take a pragmatic approach to problem-solving, balancing risk and operations.
Requirements:
We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
Ideally, we would like:
- 2+ years of Identity and Access Management experience, including delivery experience.
- Experience of design and delivery related to an Identity Provider, e.g. Active Directory, Okta, Ping, etc.
- Strong technical knowledge in networking and associated protocols as well as cloud security
- Understanding of risk management, including quantification and remediation.
- Strong identity knowledge, including Privileged Access Management, Role Based Access Control and Identity Governance.
- A desire to learn, and ability to apply technical security knowledge to new and unfamiliar areas.
- Experience of fulfilling a client facing security consulting role or business facing security role.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A passion for improving processes through scripting or automation
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement identity solutions, across a variety of SaaS and proprietary tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering and business teams to facilitate delivery, including:
- Review and analysis of proposed technical solutions and business processes to identify appropriate security controls.
- Input and guidance to security related technical architecture and design decisions.
- Code review of features and critical security components.
- Identification and quantification of relevant risks to Starling systems and processes in the context of Starling’s desired security posture.
- Advising on remediation of security issues and processes to address root causes.
- Security administration and auditing of privileged systems access.
- Triage and management of IAM security events including, where necessary, participation in IAM security incident management.
- Maintenance of existing solutions, including operational improvements.
Benefits:
Starling technology works in a hybrid pattern both from home and one of our three offices. We’re open to applications from across the UK including fully remote, if you’re hybrid our preference is that you’re located within a commutable distance to either our London, Southampton or Cardiff office, so that we’re able to see each other and collaborate in person too.
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off!
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships
About Us:
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
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