Senior Cloud Security Engineer (London or Bristol)
We are HealthHero, Europe’s largest digital clinic. Join us at a pivotal moment as we scale our digital healthcare platform across Europe — giving you the chance to shape security at the heart of a fast-growing, AI-driven business. We are recruiting an exciting Senior Cloud Security Engineer on an initial 12 month fixed term contract, with a view to becoming permanent – based in either our London or Bristol office two days per week.
About the role
This role will form a fundamental part of a growing PlatformSecurity function, where the team covers application security, cloud security, security operations, culture and risk management. As a tech-centric organisation the Information Security team will play a critical part in embedding a security-first mindset into application development and continuous application monitoring. This role will co-own the cloud security posture and tooling across HealthHero’s AWS and Azure estates and have the opportunity to tackle cloud security with an international scope. The role will be supported by a multidisciplinary force of Infrastructure, Data Governance and Engineering team leads with a security focus as part of their remit. The role has a focus on infrastructure and cloud networking when it comes to security posture.
As an experienced Cloud Security Engineer, your working day will include but not be limited to:
DevSecOps & SDLC
- Champion integration of security testing into CI/CD pipelines across all development teams and usage of automated security gates: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection
- Enable self-serve security tooling for development teams
- Ability to set up development environment
Cloud Security
- Own cloud security posture management using Wiz (or similar CSPM) Define and enforce cloud security baselines, guardrails, and policies in AWS
- Implement and maintain IaC security scanning for Terraform
- Manage IAM policies, network segmentation, and secrets management
- Configure and tune SIEM (or similar) for cloud-focused detection
- Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting requirements based on threat modelling
- Investigate and respond to cloud security events
Risk & Compliance
- Identify, articulate, and escalate security risks to senior leadership with mitigation plans
- Track and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure
- Manage customer initiatives related to due diligence when required to
- Support and develop annual programme of Penetration Testing and associated remediations
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with internal and stakeholder management to support any requirements from the security function - particularly governance and accreditation requirements across different countries
- Provide expertise on emerging threats and vulnerabilities
- Support response to customer/client due diligence requests with timely and accurate information regarding vulnerability exposure
Key Skills and Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in application security, DevSecOps, or cloud security
- Strong understanding of cloud networking
- Experience securing cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
- Ability to read and write IAC (Terraform) code, comfortable with IAC lifecycles
- Familiarity with container security and Kubernetes
- Understanding of secure coding, penetration testing techniques, SIEM, and vulnerability management
- Strong technical skills relevant to Information Security such as secure coding standards, ethical hacking techniques, network security and risk analysis
- Understanding of managing Secure Development Lifecycle and Vulnerability Management.
- Understanding and practical experience of ISO27001:2022 controls and audit processes
Desirable
- AWS Security Specialty or similar certification
- Experience in regulated environments (healthcare, financial services)
- Familiarity with NHS DSPT
- Technical knowledge of GDPR and data protection requirements
- Hands-on with CI/CD security tooling and pipeline integration
- Interest in learning other countries health and security regulations (France / UK / IR / DE)
About us
We exist to simplify healthcare and improve lives by making care feel instant, intelligent and human.
HealthHero is Europe’s largest digital health provider, delivering 4 million consultations per year. But we’re just getting started. We’ve built a seamless digital clinic that brings body and mind together — from GP appointments and mental health support to long-term condition management. By sitting behind the world’s leading insurers and employers and supporting public health systems, we make it easier for millions of people to get the care they need, exactly when they need it.
We are a high-growth, capital-backed business with a sophisticated scale strategy. Our team is a unique blend of those with strong digital experience, management consultants, creatives and industry-leading clinical experts.
We aren’t just digitising appointments; we’re building the next generation of healthcare. We’re creating an AI-powered, always-on ecosystem that learns from every interaction to shift the needle from reactive treatment to proactive, sustainable health. At HealthHero, we are digital when it should be and human where it counts.
Join us, and help build a next generation health system the world is waiting for.
We’re proud to be recognised as a which reflects our commitment to creating a supportive and engaging culture. We have also been featured as the fastest growing digital healthcare company of scale in the first Sunday Times 100 Tech list. This recognition shows our impact in the digital health sector and our dedication to innovation and excellence. Committed to achieving excellence in the delivery of person-centred care, we invest in people, resources and technology to continuously improve the quality of its services and organisational culture.
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