Technical Assurance Analyst

Location:  Hybrid - 3 days at VHQ, Crawley

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Competitive

Closing Date:  24th September 2026 

We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

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In a nutshell

We’re looking for an Technical Assurance Analyst to help strengthen our security posture across a complex, modern technology environment spanning cloud, infrastructure, applications, operational technology and third-party services. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded cyber security professional who enjoys assessing risk, challenging control weaknesses and influencing better security outcomes across a large enterprise environment.

Day to day

As part of our Information & Cyber Security team, you’ll play a key role in helping Virgin Atlantic stay secure, resilient and ready for the future.

You’ll deliver technical assurance across a wide range of security controls, technology changes, solution designs and remediation activity. Acting as an independent second-line assurance partner, you’ll use your technical judgement to assess whether controls are well designed, properly implemented and working effectively.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys getting under the skin of technology, asking thoughtful questions and helping teams make secure, practical decisions.

You’ll:

• Deliver technical assurance reviews across applications, infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoints, networks and operational technology environments.
• Assess technology changes, onboarding activity and solution designs to identify security risks early and support secure-by-design outcomes.
• Coordinate the scoping, commissioning, delivery and follow-up of penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and specialist security testing.
• Analyse vulnerability information, remediation evidence, security exceptions and risk acceptance requests to support clear oversight of technical risk.
• Produce clear assurance findings, practical recommendations and management reporting for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Help strengthen our assurance methods, testing approaches and control validation practices so we continue to improve how we manage security risk.

About You

We’re looking for someone who brings a strong technical assurance mindset, enjoys getting into the detail of security controls and can help teams improve outcomes through clear, constructive and evidence-based challenge.

You’ll be comfortable working across complex technology environments, translating technical findings into practical recommendations and influencing stakeholders in a way that feels collaborative, calm and focused on progress.

We’d love to hear from you if you have experience in information security, cyber security, technical assurance, technology risk, audit, security testing or control validation, including some of the following:

• Conducting or supporting technical assurance reviews across areas such as applications, infrastructure, cloud, identity, endpoints, networks, suppliers or operational technology.
• Reviewing technology changes, solution designs, onboarding activity or project delivery to assess security risks and support secure-by-design outcomes.
• Assessing technical evidence to understand whether controls are well designed, properly implemented and operating effectively.
• Supporting vulnerability management, remediation tracking, security exception reviews or risk acceptance activity, with a clear view of technical risk.
• Coordinating penetration testing, red team, purple team or specialist security testing, including scoping, delivery oversight, evidence review and findings management.
• Working with technical teams, control owners, suppliers, auditors or assurance providers to turn vulnerabilities, assurance outputs and control gaps into clear, risk-based actions. 

If this sounds like you, and you would like to unlock your potential with us, we would love to hear from you!

Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.