Security Controller

We are proud to have and promote a healthy work-life balance in a casual working environment. Some of the benefits include: 

• Competitive salary and shared employee / employer contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement and option to buy additional holidays after 1 year of service.
• Travel compensation scheme
• Clear development, training and career progression opportunities
• Flexible Working Policy
• Opportunities to travel to great locations worldwide to work with robots
• External, online training courses and in-house training
• Offices in the centre of Edinburgh or in Bristol, two great cities to live and work
• Free access to a gymnasium
• On-site parking
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Showers, lockers, swipe access internal bike store
• Travel season ticket loan
• Annual company day out
• Save money on your commute as SeeByte participates in the Cycle to Work Scheme and Travel season ticket loan.  SeeByte also supports an EV leasing scheme.

As a Security Controller, you will be responsible for safeguarding government and SeeByte information while protecting SeeByte’s employees, information, infrastructure and facilities. You will play a critical role in maintaining compliance with UK Government Standard GovS 007, ensuring SeeByte adheres to government frameworks and security standards. 

In this role, you will administer and continuously enhance SeeByte’s Information Security Management System, fostering a strong security culture across the organisation. This is a hands-on role and will require frequent Edinburgh office attendance, in-person communication and occasional travel to our Bristol office will be expected.

You will provide expert guidance to project teams on security-related matters, ensuring the proper handling of classified information and assets, effective risk management, and adherence to security best practices.

• Implement and maintain robust security policy, processes and data protection measures, ensuring organisational compliance with government standards such as GovS 007, supporting personnel security clearance and vetting, promoting a strong security culture, and contributing to risk management and mitigation initiatives.
• Collaborate effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders to coordinate security activities, specify security requirements, maintain records, deliver security training, promote security awareness, and support organisational security objectives.
• Oversee the full lifecycle and security management of classified physical and digital assets, including procurement, inventory control, secure storage, distribution, disposal, policy compliance, auditing, incident response, and liaison with internal and external stakeholders.
• Engaging with the UK defence security community, adopting best practice and driving organisational change across the business.

This role requires a strong background in security management, ideally within a UK defence contractor, the Ministry of Defence (MOD), or other government agencies. You should be confident advising on security matters and ensuring compliance across the organisation. You will be confident having technical conversations with our project teams, to enable security risks to be surfaced and effectively mitigated.

• Extensive experience in security management within MOD, defence, or other government environments.
• Strong understanding of MOD/ISO security frameworks, policies, and best practices.
• Ability to interpret and apply security legislation and compliance requirements in an efficient and effective manner.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively engage with teams at all levels.
• The ability to rapidly digest new information and technically competent enough to get to grips with a wide array of technically complex projects.
• Must hold, or be eligible for, a Security Check clearance. Please see Nationality Eligibility Statement at the end of this document.

The following areas of experience will be desirable, but not essential, to your application:

• Prior experience of US Government security governance and compliance would be an advantage.
• Prior experience in Export Control, dual-use items and ITAR compliance

• High integrity, discretion, trustworthiness, and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively, with a proactive approach to incident response and stakeholder liaison.
• Pragmatic and solution focused.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to influence and educate teams at all levels of the business on security best practices.
• A commitment to continuous learning; keeping up with evolving security threats and the latest tools with which to mitigate them.

To apply, please send a recent copy of your CV and a cover letter to hr@seebyte.com.

As an inclusive employer, SeeByte aims to build diverse teams by encouraging applications from a wide range of individuals.