Kaluza

Job title: Head of Information Security

Location: London / Bristol (Including Hybrid)

Salary: £141,000 - £164,000

Team: Technology

Reporting To: (Job title) Director of Product, Enterprise Platform

Closing date for applications:

This role is based in The UK and requires existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

At Kaluza we embrace a flexible, hybrid work model that balances autonomy with the power of in-person connection. Many of our teams find value in coming together regularly to collaborate, strengthen relationships, and accelerate progress. We’re focused on shaping thoughtful, team-driven approaches that support both business impact and individual well-being.

What will I be doing?

You'll be joining the Kaluza Technology community. We’re a large team of both data-led and product focused Software, Platform Engineers and Security specialists pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale. As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community.

To find out more about what it’s like to work in our Kaluza Technology Community, check out our Tech Blog here:

https://www.kaluza.com/blog/

You’ll be working across Kaluza Retail, Energy Optimisation and Customer Care Platforms, collectively these aim to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally.

This platform has been built with scale and technical quality in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers.

You will lead, mentor, and grow our high-performing, global team of Security and Identity specialists, setting the technical direction and creating a culture of continuous improvement. Your primary mission is to embed robust security across the entire product lifecycle, collaborating closely with engineering and product leaders to achieve strategic goals. You will be the senior voice for security, championing awareness programs, developing our client-facing IAM capabilities, and ensuring our compliance with rigorous international standards. This is a highly visible role where you will represent Kaluza's security capabilities to our clients, the industry, and the board.

Responsibilities

• Provide Technical and Strategic leadership, direction and vision for cyber security, Identity and Access Management at Kaluza.
• Develop Kaluza’s Identity and Access Management capabilities, working with colleagues in product to align and deliver against client needs.
• Embed security by design and DevSecOps practices across our engineering teams, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements in the markets we operate in.
• Ensure our security posture meets rigorous global industry standards such as ISO27001 as well as local requirements for the markets we operate in.
• Lead, mentor and develop your team of Security and Identity specialists across the UK, Europe and Australia, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to further embed security across the product lifecycle, aligning strong security practices with strategic goals while engaging with diverse teams to understand and support their needs.
• Develop and maintain Kaluza’s cloud, application, SecOps and workplace security capabilities
• Champion security with our executive team and the board. Reporting on security posture, risk, compliance status, and improvement initiatives.
• Lead information security awareness and secure coding education programs for technology teams and the wider business.
• Represent Kaluza’s Security & Identity capabilities with our clients and across the industry.

About You

• Proven experience in a senior leadership role responsible for an organisation's end-to-end information security function.
• Demonstrable experience working with counterparts in product to develop and execute a multi-year cybersecurity strategy roadmap.
• Strong people leadership skills with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and scaling high-performing, geographically distributed security teams.
• Experience working in modern cloud security architectures (AWS preferred), including container, microservices, and serverless modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
• Proven track record of implementing security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) standards, with direct experience leading audits for standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, or regional data-privacy laws.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting complex security topics, risks, and strategies to executive leaders (C-Suite) and the Board.
• Previous experience acting as the senior security expert in commercial and client-facing discussions, articulating security posture and capabilities to customers and partners.

What will set you apart

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CASP+, CASE, CASS, CISM, CCSP, or SABSA are preferred.
• Additional certifications in cloud security (CCSK, AWS Security Specialty) and agile/DevOps environments are beneficial.

Kaluza Values

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:

We’re on a mission, We build together, We’re inclusive, We get it done, We communicate with purpose.

Read more about our values over on our careers site.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• And more…

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.

You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.