Cloud Native Security Engineer

Role overview Help organizations design, assess, and improve security across cloud-native platforms and containerized environments. The work combines client consulting with internal lab projects and open-source contributions, applying practical security engineering to complex systems, including highly regulated environments. The role welcomes candidates with varied backgrounds and values both technical judgment and a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities - Advise clients on threat modeling and security architecture for cloud environments. - Assess and improve Kubernetes and container security across managed services and platforms such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or OpenShift. - Strengthen software supply-chain security and apply DevSecOps engineering practices. - Automate security testing and harden CI/CD pipelines. - Use security tools to identify and address risks, drawing on enterprise and open-source options. - Contribute to internal security labs and open-source work, and guide clients toward secure-by-design practices.

Requirements - Knowledge of threat modeling and cloud-native security architectures across AWS, GCP, or Azure. - Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and at least some managed Kubernetes or OpenShift environments. - Understanding of software supply-chain security, DevSecOps, and engineering practices. - CI/CD experience, including security test automation and pipeline hardening. - Familiarity with security tooling such as Aqua, Prisma, Sysdig, Lacework, Falco, kube-hunter, or kube-bench. - Knowledge of hardening guidance, compliance, and risk-management standards; willingness to learn and collaborate. - Right to work in the UK or EU.

Nice to have - Command-line experience with relevant cloud or Kubernetes tools. - Go or Python skills, and familiarity with Terraform, infrastructure as code, and cloud infrastructure practices for regulated systems.

Benefits and work setup - Full-time role, remote or London-based; salary listed up to £85,000, plus bonus. - 33 days of paid holiday including UK bank holidays, enhanced parental leave, and private medical insurance. - Individual development budget for conferences, courses, books, coaching, and qualifications, alongside internal training.