Cloud Native Security Engineer
Job description
Cloud Native Security Consultant at a London-headquartered cloud-native consultancy, performing client consulting, internal labs projects, and open source contributions. The role focuses on securing cloud-native and containerised environments.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Perform a mix of client consulting, working on internal labs projects, and contributing to Open Source projects on ControlPlane's behalf
- Represent the technical and cultural values of ControlPlane, leading customers by example in cloud native technology
What we're looking for
- Knowledge of Threat Modelling and Cloud Native Security architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Kubernetes and container experience (some of EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, and container runtimes)
- Knowledge of software supply chain security
- DevSecOps principles and Engineering practices
- CI/CD experience, automating security tests, and hardening pipelines
- Knowledge of security tooling from enterprise tools such as Aqua, Prisma, Sysdig, Lacework, etc to Open Source tools such as falco, kube-hunter, and kube-bench
- Knowledge and experience using hardening guides, compliance and risk management standards
- A desire to learn, or experience with CLI tooling in any of the above technologies
- A desire to learn, or experience with Golang or Python
- A desire to learn, or experience with Terraform and cloud infrastructure best practices (IaC, regulated systems)
Your team
cloud native security team
Benefits
An individual training budget for personal development, including conferences, training (books, courses, coaching, internal training) and qualifications
- Generous and competitive salary
- Bonus
- 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Private Medical insurance
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About ControlPlane
London headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open source solutions
ControlPlane helps organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." Its engineering excellence has driven ControlPlane deeper into cybersecurity providing services like threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security to ensure robust protection against cyberattacks in containerised and cloud-native environments. ControlPlane is acclaimed for its contributions to securing highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure, and helps businesses improve their security posture through services like DevSecOps consulting, zero-trust architectures, a
Key facts
- Cloud-native and cybersecurity consulting
- SANS authors (SEC584)
- Active in the open source community, supporting projects like Flux CD
- Provides security tools for Kubernetes environments
- Works with FINOS AI Readiness and open source supply chain security
Partners & customers
What they value
- Team learning and collaboration
- Quietly confident
- Good work ethic
- Keenness to learn
- Emotional maturity and respect
- Embrace human diversity of all kinds