Cloud Security Engineer

<p>I&rsquo;m partnered exclusively with a high-growth, product-led tech business on their search for a Cloud Security Engineer, who will be landing in a global environment backed by significant private investment, serving millions of users worldwide.</p> <p><strong>Location:</strong> London (Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite)</p> <p><strong>Salary:</strong> &pound;120k + benefits</p> <p>You&rsquo;ll be part of building AI-driven, privacy-first platforms that handle highly sensitive user data. This is a key hire within a central platform engineering function, focused on embedding security into the foundations of a modern cloud-native environment.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Embedding security-by-design across cloud infrastructure, engineering platforms, and developer tooling</li> <li>Driving security-as-code across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container environments</li> <li>Owning and enhancing cloud security posture across AWS (e.g. threat detection, vulnerability management, patching)</li> <li>Securing container ecosystems &#8211; image hardening, signing, verification, and policy enforcement</li> <li>Implementing and maintaining policy-as-code frameworks to enforce security standards at scale</li> <li>Building security observability and metrics to provide insight into risk and performance</li> <li>Supporting privacy-first architecture for large-scale, sensitive user data environments</li> <li>Collaborating cross-functionally to drive security culture, standards, and best practice</li> </ul> <p><strong>You must have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Proven experience in Cloud Security / Security Engineering / Infrastructure Security roles</li> <li>Strong expertise in AWS security services and cloud-native security principles</li> <li>Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)</li> <li>Solid knowledge of Kubernetes and container security (image hardening, runtime controls, admission policies)</li> <li>Experience implementing identity and access management (SSO, OAuth, SAML, JWT)</li> <li>Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, etc.)</li> <li>Understanding of network security and secure architecture principles</li> <li>Experience embedding security into SDLC / DevSecOps environments</li> </ul> <p>You&rsquo;ll be working on large-scale, high-impact platforms where security is critical, with the opportunity to shape it at a foundational level. The environment is modern and cloud-native, built around DevSecOps best practices, and backed by a strong engineering culture that values autonomy, ownership, and pace.</p> <p><strong>Sound interesting? Please apply directly for more detail</strong></p> <p><span data-teams="true">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>, </p>