Where Warwick
What I.T. & Communications
Type Permanent
Salary
Annual
Cloud Security Engineer
Location: Hybrid (On-site 1-2 times per month)Salary: Up to £75,000 + BenefitsClearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance
The Opportunity
My client is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join a growing cyber security function responsible for securing and enhancing enterprise cloud environments. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working across a broad range of cloud security disciplines, driving security improvements, and helping shape security best practices across modern cloud platforms.
The successful candidate will play a key role in identifying security risks, improving security posture, and ensuring cloud technologies are deployed and operated securely across Azure and GCP environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive security improvements across cloud infrastructure and services.
- Monitor, investigate and remediate cloud security risks and vulnerabilities.
- Manage and optimise cloud security tooling, ensuring alerts and findings are effectively interpreted and actioned.
- Administer and enhance Microsoft security technologies, including Microsoft Defender.
- Implement and maintain Conditional Access policies and identity security controls.
- Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and engineering teams to embed security best practices.
- Support security governance, compliance and risk management activities.
- Contribute to incident response and security investigations where required.
- Help develop and improve security standards, procedures and controls.
Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a Cloud Security, Cyber Security or Security Engineering role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure security.
- Good understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security.
- Experience with Microsoft Defender and broader Microsoft security technologies.
- Knowledge of identity and access management, including Conditional Access.
- Experience working with cloud security monitoring and posture management tools.
- Ability to interpret security findings and drive meaningful remediation activities.
- Comfortable operating across a broad range of security responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
Additional Information
- Hybrid working model with on-site attendance required once or twice per month.
- Remote on-call support will form part of the role, with participation expected within the first six months.
- Typical on-call rota expected to be approximately 1 in 5 / 1 in 6.
- Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.
If you are passionate about cloud security and enjoy working in a hands-on role where you can influence security improvements across a complex environment, we would like to hear from you.
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