Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Bristol

£95,000 + great benefits

An impressive financial services business is looking to hire a Lead Cloud Security Engineer to support this team with the risk and remediation activities. This business is going through a big technology transformation programme that is estimated to take 3 -5 years. The successful Lead Cloud Security Engineer will be part of this journey and have great technical exposure and the ability to rapidly progress. Working closely in one of transformation projects, the successful Lead Cloud Security Engineer will work closely with the wider security and technology teams to define the strategy and roadmap of technology changes moving forward. This is very much a play-manager role with the Lead Cloud Security Engineer being hands on day to day but also providing support and guidance to the other Cloud Security Engineer on the team

Lead Cloud Security Engineer - Duties and Responsibilities

The successful Lead Cloud Security Engineer will have responsibilities covering:

Team Leadership

• Support the existing team, providing mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment
• Define the team priorities in alignment with both the business and ad the security team objectives, taking a pragmatic approach when these seem to be out of synch
• Conduct performance reviews and upskill the existing team member s

Strategic Security Oversight

• Act as the SME and for security in network design whilst enforcing best practices at software and platform level
• Ensure that continuous improvement is happening in the security practices by developing and or refining policies

Secure Design and Architecture Guidance

• Ensure that security requirement input is provided across the programme to ensure that the new technology is secure by design
• Support the teams to interpret security requirements of the project using various frameworks (NIST . NCSC)
• Oversee threat modelling sessions to support mitigations for these in the planning cycle

Security Requirements

• Establish full, comprehensive AWS network configurations ensuring that these align with various org policies
• Support wider teams with security advice and guidance in both a verbal and written format
• Lead delivery of hands on security engineering solutions when needed

Lead Cloud Security Engineer - Your Background

The ideal Lead Cloud Security Engineerwill have:

• Experience in a similar role, in both responsibility and scale
• Strong AWS experience
• Proven experience in securing network architectures and running ang performing security assessments
• Relevant professional certifications for example:
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • AWS Security Certs
  • Strong understanding of network security controls and network security defence
  • Hands on history with Firewalls, VPNs and other network security tools

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