Platform Security Engineer

Platform Security Engineer

📍 Location: Mostly remote with occasional travel to London

💷 Rate: Up to £650 per day (Outside IR35)

📅 Contract: Initial 3 months with strong extension potential

🔒 Clearance: Active SC Clearance required

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Platform Security Engineer to join a high-profile Central Government AI programme, supporting the security, resilience and ongoing enhancement of a cloud-based platform.

Working within an agile delivery team, you'll help strengthen the security posture of the platform while improving deployment processes, infrastructure automation and operational visibility.

Key responsibilities

* Enhance the security and resilience of Azure-hosted platforms.

* Improve infrastructure configuration and platform hardening.

* Support the implementation of secure CI/CD pipelines.

* Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

* Increase platform observability, monitoring and operational performance.

* Work closely with engineering and delivery teams to embed security best practice throughout the development lifecycle.

Essential experience

* Strong DevOps or Platform Engineering background.

* Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including App Services, Azure PostgreSQL, Storage Accounts (Blob Storage) and Azure Container Registry (ACR).

* Experience writing and maintaining Terraform.

* Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions / GitHub CI/CD pipelines.

* Understanding of cloud security principles and secure platform engineering.

* Active SC Clearance