Security Process Engineer

Why we're hiring:

The Process Engineer is responsible for designing, engineering, maintaining, and continuously improving Operational Security processes across WPP. The role focuses on defining how Operational Security operates in practice, ensuring processes are clear, auditable, automation-enabled, and scalable. This is an individual contributor role with no people management responsibilities; management accountability sits with the Process Engineering Lead.

What you'll be doing:

Operational Security Process Engineering (Assess)

• - Engineer and maintain end-to-end operational security processes across SOC operations, incident response, detection engineering, threat hunting, threat intelligence, automation, and vulnerability management.
• - Define workflows, decision points, inputs/outputs, and escalation paths for operational activities.
• - Maintain the authoritative process library describing how Operational Security services operate.

Process Standardisation, Consistency & Governance (Safeguard)

• - Ensure processes are standardised, consistent, and aligned across teams and regions.
• - Align processes to internal policy, risk, legal, and assurance requirements.
• - Act as a quality gate for new or changed processes to ensure clarity and audit readiness.

Automation-Enabled Process Design (Operate)

• - Partner with Security Automation Engineering to ensure processes are automation-friendly and evidence-driven.
• - Identify manual or high-effort steps and work with engineering teams to automate or eliminate them.
• - Ensure documented processes accurately reflect real system behaviour.

Audit, Assurance & Evidence Support

• - Maintain process documentation suitable for internal and external audit.
• - Support audits and reviews by explaining processes, control points, and evidence sources.
• - Ensure traceability between process definitions, tooling, and execution.

Continuous Improvement & Operating Model Maturity

• - Review and improve processes based on operational feedback, incidents, and maturity assessments.
• - Support KPI, maturity, and continual service improvement initiatives.
• - Partner with security teams to evolve processes as capabilities mature.

What you'll need:

Essential:

• - Experience designing or engineering operational processes in a security or technology environment.
• - Strong understanding of security operations domains and how they interconnect.
• - Ability to translate operational activity into clear, auditable processes.
• - Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Desirable:

• - Experience supporting audit or assurance activity.
• - Familiarity with automation-first or engineering-led operating models.
• - Exposure to ITIL or process maturity frameworks in practical application

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• - Individual contributor role reporting to the Process Engineering Lead.
• - Works closely with Automation Engineering, Detection Engineering, IR, CTI, and VM teams.
• - Central to WPP’s Autonomic Security Operations and automation strategy

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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