Cyber Security Specialist

Cyber Security Specialist

Croda is a FTSE
100 organisation where we truly believe our people are our difference and this along with ourvalues of Innovative Responsible and Together create our Purpose Smart scienceto improve lives. With over 5000 employees globally we specialise in the research and development of innovative ingredients for the Life Science and Consumer Care markets.

We are focused on developing our inclusive culture through accountability collaboration and innovation. By joining Croda you will bepart of a team who are using smart science to create a more sustainable future.

As we deliver our ambitious
2030 Growth Strategy were looking for a Cyber Security Specialist to report into the Chief Resilience and Security Officer.

The role
Thisis the operational heart of cyber security  will take security policy off the page and turn it into controls that actually work - in officesin the cloud and on manufacturing plant floors around the world. When something goes wrong you will be at the centre of the response coordinating people calmly and driving incidents to resolution. Day to day you will run the operational rhythm of security: triaging alerts prioritising vulnerabilities advising projects and making security feel like an enabler rather than ablocker.

Youwill report directly to our Chief Resilience and Security Officer with genuine visibility of how security decisions are made at the top of a global business
-rare exposure at this stage of a career.

What you will do

• Make security real - turn Crodas security policies and standards into practical proportionate controls that teams actually adopt
• Respond when it matters - act as a core member of our incident response capability coordinating or leading response across detection triage containment eradication and recovery then driving lessons learned
• Run daily operations - investigate alerts guide vulnerability remediation keep on top of threat intelligence and make sure real risks get acted on
• Advise not police - be the pragmatic trusted security voice for IT engineering and business teams - on projects in change management and in day-to-day decisions
• Work smarter with AI - use AI as a genuine force multiplier - accelerating investigation analysis documentation and response so one person can achieve what used to take a team

AI fluency is part of this job
Weare serious about this one. Modern security operations are being transformed byAI and we want someone who is already fluent in prompt engineering and context engineering - who knows how to brief an AI model with the right context structure a prompt to get reliable output and judge when to trust the resultand when not to. You might use these skills to accelerate log analysis draft incident communications summarise threat intelligence or build repeatable AI-assisted workflows for the team.

You will be asked to demonstrate thislive as part of the interview process - we will give you a realistic security scenario and ask you to show us how you would work through it with AI  trick questions; we just want to see how you think and how you work.

What you will bring

You do notneed to tick every box. If you meet most of these and this role excites you wewould genuinely like to hear from you.

• Experience working in cyber security with a strong grasp of core security principles and how to apply them in the real world
• Experience supporting or participating in incident response
• Demonstrable fluency in AI prompt and context engineering applied to practical work
• The ability to give clear practical security guidance to technical and non-technical people alike
• Familiarity with common security technologies - monitoring platforms endpoint security cloud controls vulnerability tooling
• Working knowledge of frameworks such as NIST CSF or ISO 27001

Even better if you have

• Security certifications such as CISSP CISM or GCIH - though experience counts just as much
• Experience in regulated enterprise-scale or manufacturing environments
• Exposure to cloud platforms or security operations tooling at scale

Who you are

Pragmatic and risk-aware. Comfortable being a generalist across a broad range of technologies rather than a deep specialist in one. A clear communicator who can influence without authority stay calm under pressure and juggle competing priorities without dropping the ones that matter.

What we offer

• Hybrid and flexible working - we care about what you deliver not where you sit
• Real investment in your development including certifications training and mentoring
• A role with unusual…