Senior Cloud Security Engineer

KE Technology
London
10 months ago
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Salary: Up to £115,000 package (base 100k & 15% annual bonus)

Type: Permanent

Posted On: 18/07/2023

Senior Cloud Security Engineer in GCP, required by a UK powerhouse that continues to disrupt and advance an industry. Working within a new digital change function inside the security division, you’ll have scope to have a real impact across Cloud security and DevSecOps, driving a better system for its millions of customers.

What we offer:

  • Up to £115,000 package (base 100k & 15% annual bonus)
  • Massive package including double Pension contributions up to 10% = 30% contribution in total
  • Strong remote flexibility, with 1 or 2 monthly onsite London working days required

Minimum Requirements:

  • Proven experience in a Cloud Security, DevSecOps or Cloud Sec focused DevOps position
  • GCP and GCP Security experience
  • Python
  • Excellent infrastructure security experience
  • CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment, with security scanning
  • Source code management (SCM) and can secure at enterprise level
  • IaC tools (Terraform)
  • Experience in running and maintaining software, operating a large cloud deployment, or creating and triaging alerts around the health and security of systems
  • Exposure to public cloud security compliance standards e.g., CIS, NIST, PCI, SOC, etc.

Role Responsibilities:

  • Focus on solving complex Cloud security (GCP) challenges and collaborating with Security Engineers, Cloud and development teams to drive security observability and change
  • Build reliable tools to prevent, mitigate or remediate misconfigurations, further advancing high quality around secure cloud infrastructure
  • Provide security expertise for software and infrastructure projects and cloud service designs
  • Conduct threat modelling, risk assessments, and security validation
  • Develop new tools, templates, patterns, and methods to help the teams scale securely at pace
  • Partner with Engineering and Cloud teams to build a secure cloud native platform
  • Research and implement advanced layered public cloud security use cases e.g., IAM, analytics, true network exposure, etc.
  • Mentor, learn, and constantly hone technical skills while guiding others to improve theirs

Why Join?

Have a stake in the next chapter of one of the most successful UK businesses, driving a positive impact for its millions of customers. Huge opportunity to propel your career forward and be supported by a diverse team, with a wealth of knowledge. We are catapulting the UK forward, come help us!

Sound of interest? Please reply to find out more.

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