Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Location: UK Remote

Salary: £90k - £100k + Excellent Benefits

The Client:

Our client, a prominent organisation, collaborates with the NHS to empower researchers in discovering disease causes and developing innovative treatments, with a focus on prioritising patients and participants.

The Role:

This opportunity would suit someone who is looking to do something that is impactful, where you can clearly see the results of the work that you're doing and help shape a Security Engineering function.

You will lead on new and interesting projects that are the first of their kind and have a hugely positive social impact.

Duties:

? Working with the cloud engineering team and providing expert advice on securing their use of Azure cloud services, Kubernetes and containers.


? In particular, providing guidance and a level of oversight for Azure network security and Key Vault.
? Encouraging and leading on a 'shift-left' approach to security.
? Overseeing and supporting the operation of Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
? Developing and getting wider buy-in for security policy as code (using OPA or similar).
? Assisting with maturing their use of and supporting the operation of Entra ID (previously AAD) for IAM, Identity Governance and Privileged Identity Management.
? Driving the work to secure their Data Platform, including their use of Databricks, Dagster and Snowflake along with in-house developed applications and CI/CD pipeline.
? Collaborate with wider tech and security teams on the implementation and operation of a robust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) service.
? Supporting, coaching and mentoring members of the wider security team.


Requirements:

? Proficient in writing Terraform, KQL and ideally Python and PowerShell.
? Significant experience of securing Azure and Azure security services (e.g.

Key Vault, NSGs, WAF, etc.)
? Significant experience of securing Kubernetes (ideally AKS) and co