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Cloud Security Engineer Kent - Hybrid 12-month FTC - Competitive Salary VIQU have partnered with a leading automotive organisation seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join their growing security function. This role has been created to help bridge the gap between the cloud team and security, playing a crucial part in ensuring the organisation's cloud environment remains secure and resilient. As a Cloud Security Engineer, you'll focus on securing cloud infrastructure, implementing best practices, and helping shape security processes to tackle current and emerging threats. You'll work closely with both technical and non-technical teams, acting as a key point of contact between cloud and security disciplines. Key Responsibilities of the Cloud Security Engineer: â Ensure the security and integrity of cloud architecture by following and promoting security best practices.â Identify and respond to security risks and incidents, offering practical, actionable solutions.â Collaborate with internal teams across cloud, infrastructure, and security to ensure a cohesive approach.â Stay ahead of emerging threats and adjust security posture accordingly.â Communicate security risks, approaches, and resolutions to both technical teams and business stakeholders. Key Requirements of the Cloud Security Engineer: â Hands-on experience with AWS and a good understanding of cloud-native security principles.â Experience working with Terraform as IaC.â Previous exposure to cloud engineering/platform roles and Cloud Security Engineering positionsâ Understanding of networking architecture, particularly within cloud environments.â Familiarity with security frameworks such as ISO 27001, CIS, or NIST.â Knowledge of system, technology, and product life cycles and how security fits within them.â Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to operate across both technical and non-technical teams.â Ability to independently troubleshoot issues and propose sound technical solutions. To discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Katie Dark on If you know someone who would be ideal for this role, by way of showing our appreciation, VIQU is offering an introduction fee up to £1,000 once your referral has successfully started work with our client (terms apply). To be the first to hear about other exciting opportunities, technology and recruitment news, please also follow us at ‘ VIQU IT Recruitment' on LinkedIn, and Twitter: @VIQU_UK Cloud Security Engineer Kent - Hybrid 12-month FTC - Competitive Salary

Description Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices. Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together! The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness. Hybrid Working We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. Our Engineering Environment Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech . We are looking for engineers at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good. We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis. About the Role Our infrastructure spans across AWS, Google Cloud and our physical data centres to support our internal operations. You will work within the Security Engineering team to engineer and support the technical mechanisms that ensure that the bank's systems and data remain secure at all times. Designing, building and maintaining internal security tools, services and the infrastructure they run on; Helping the Security Team to automate security processes and procedures; Investigation, triage and management of security incidents; Contribution to Starlings secure architecture design; Requirements We're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. Below is an overview of experience that would be helpful: Experience in programming in Golang Knowledge of public cloud technologies, in particular AWS and GCP Some experience of using IAC technologies such as Terraform and Kubernetes Experience of working in any software development role; DevOps, SRE or Security Engineering experience is a nice to have Some knowledge of certification management, mTLS and SCEP is a plus A genuine enthusiasm for identifying security problems and building solutions to them Our process: Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team: Initial phone call ~45 minutes Take home technical test to be discussed in the technical interview ~3 hours Technical interview ~1.5 hours Final Interview ~40 minutes Benefits 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you) An extra days holiday for your birthday Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off 16 hours paid volunteering time a year Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton Generous family friendly policies Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing About us You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems. Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Starling Bank may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. 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