About Us

Here at Gousto, we are on a mission to become the UK's favourite way to eat dinner!

Delicious recipes, precise ingredients & a dollop of adventure, delivered to your door. We have invested into our technology, data capability and our product to ensure the customer is at the heart of what we do. Every aspect of our business is powered by our passion.

Whether it is innovation through our recipe development, building algorithms to optimise our recipe box journey or devising strategies to reduce plastic and food waste. All our teams play a part in our amazing growth in the UK!

Our DREAM? To be the most-loved way to eat dinner, and for every meal to leave the planet better off. Gousto is changing how people shop, cook and eat food at home. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join our team!

Security Analyst

As Security Analyst you will be a key player in enabling Gousto to deliver its Security Strategy and maintaining its Information Security Management System, in alignment with ISO 27001.

At Gousto, we feel strongly about security not being a box ticking exercise. We strive to embed security in a manner that fits with our culture and ways of working. It is important that we adopt a big picture perspective to ensure that security practices are sustainable and will scale as the business and threat landscape changes.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact by elevating our current security maturity to the next level.

The role will report into the Information Security Manager, sitting in our fast growing Operational Systems team. You will be working with a team across our business to implement and maintain security best practices.

What you’ll do (job tasks and responsibilities)

• Drive the further development and management of our security threat monitoring capabilities, working closely with our IT team, Software Engineers and SOC
• Lead the timely response to security incidents and events, ensuring they are appropriately escalated, assessed and thoroughly managed
• Be central to designing and coordinating the delivery of security improvements, working in cross-functional teams
• Maintain and further embed our security policies, principles and standards to foster our security culture and ensure it is always front of mind
• Develop and continuously monitor a set of KPIs that depict the state of security and bring to light any opportunities to improve security

Requirements

Mindset:

• You have a delivery mindset and are able to keep up with a fast paced, high growth organisation
• You have the ability to prioritise and execute against critical deliverables, coupled with a sense of personal ownership for delivery
• You are a high-energy self-starter with a passion for security, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
• You want to make a big impact and have the initiative and confidence to do so

Skills & Experience:

• At least 2 years of experience in security with the ability to leverage your expertise to bring a fresh perspective to security at Gousto
• A university degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Information Systems, Computer Science) is desirable but not required if you have sufficient experience or other technical knowledge
• Excellent problem solver able to root cause security issues, identify issues/opportunities, design and implement pragmatic solutions
• You have great communication skills, whether to your team, to business stakeholders or to our leadership team
• Working knowledge of ISO 27001
• Working knowledge of GDPR is desirable but not required if you have a willingness to learn
• Knowledge of security in Software Engineering is highly desirable but not required

Our Culture

You’re a confident self-starter, able to juggle multiple projects in a dynamic, exciting and entrepreneurial environment. You’re initiative and a problem-solver with an eagle eye for detail. You’ll consistently go the extra mile to apply and achieve a high standard across everything you do.

Dream - Today’s good is tomorrow’s mediocre. We’re always looking for ways to improve Gousto, our team and ourselves.

Deliver - We understand where we can add the most value and obsess about making improvements every day.

Care - We can only achieve big things by working collaboratively. We respect different people’s skills, experience and points of view. We work as one team.

Equal opportunities

Whether it is creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto.

We are committed to equality of opportunity across our organisation. At all levels we promote equality, ensuring our people are consistently treated in a fair and equal manner.

Go Gousto!