Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer Location: Hybrid (On-site 1-2 times per month) Salary: Up to £75,000 + Benefits Clearance: 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 bro...

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