IT Security Engineer

IT Security Engineer | Up to £60,000 base salary | Annual bonus | Chichester

This is a senior-level role responsible for the security, resilience, and integrity of Nature's Way Foods' IT infrastructure. As the organisation's technical security lead, you will define security strategy, drive key decisions, and oversee cybersecurity across corporate IT, Operational Technology (OT), and manufacturing environments.

Supported by the IT Infrastructure team, you will lead threat detection and response, vulnerability and patch management, security awareness, and compliance. You'll also own the organisation's patching strategy, champion security best practices, and help shape future initiatives, including cloud security, SASE, and Zero Trust architecture.

What you get from us

• Base salary of £50,000 £60,000 dependent on experience
• Annual bonus
• Employer matched pension up to 5%
• Health cash plan
• Flexible benefits including corporate gym discounts, shopping discounts, enhanced maternity & paternity policy and many more
• Access to online GP & life assurance

Key responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead for cyber security across IT and Operational Technology (OT) environments
• Lead the end-to-end management of security incidents, from investigation and containment through to remediation and post-incident review
• Monitor, triage and respond to security threats using EDR, SIEM, NDR and email security platforms, working closely with managed security providers
• Own the organisation's patching and vulnerability management programme, ensuring timely remediation and reporting on risk
• Manage and maintain network security technologies, including firewalls, SASE, Network Access Control (NAC) and Zero Trust controls
• Protect manufacturing and OT environments by maintaining secure network segmentation and managing risks to production systems
• Administer identity and endpoint security, including active directory, group policy, endpoint compliance and cloud identity services
• Lead the organisation's security awareness programme, delivering training, phishing simulations and engaging security communications
• Develop, maintain and improve security policies, standards, procedures and incident response playbooks
• Support governance, risk and compliance activities, ensuring security controls, backup and disaster recovery processes remain effective
• Produce regular security reporting and metrics, providing insight into vulnerabilities, patch compliance, incidents and awareness programme effectiveness
• Drive continuous improvement of the organisation's cyber security capability, supporting cloud security initiatives, emerging technologies and the evolution towards a zero trust architecture

Requirements

• Extensive experience in an IT infrastructure, network security or cyber security engineering role
• Proven experience administering enterprise security technologies, including firewalls, EDR, SIEM, NDR, SASE, email security and Network Access Control (NAC)
• Strong knowledge of vulnerability management, enterprise patching and incident response, with the ability to investigate, prioritise and remediate security threats
• Experience managing identity and endpoint security, including active directory, group policy and enterprise endpoint compliance
• Solid understanding of windows server, virtualisation, enterprise networking and backup/disaster recovery solutions
• Experience securing Operational Technology (OT) or manufacturing environments, with an understanding of IT/OT network segmentation and industrial cyber security
• Exposure to cloud security technologies (Azure and/or AWS), cloud identity management and hybrid infrastructure environments
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver security awareness training and present technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Relevant security certifications (e.g. Security+, CySA+, CISSP, CISM) and ITIL Foundation are desirable
• A proactive, collaborative and solutions-focused approach, with strong ownership, attention to detail, problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities

About us

Natures Way Foods is the leading manufacturer of prepared salads, coleslaw, and food-to-go for supermarkets. We work closely with farmers across Europe to deliver exceptional quality and freshness. But theres more to us than the products we make.

Our culture is inclusive and our people are diverse, spanning 39 different languages across four manufacturing facilities capable of producing over 400 million units per year. Its an exciting time to join Natures Way Foods were growing rapidly and there are genuine opportunities to progress within the organisation.

Interested?

Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.

At Natures Way Foods, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key to driving innovation and achieving excellence. Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential. Join us in our mission to create a more inclusive and fairer world. Together, we can become Best at Fresh.