Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Requirements

  • 5+ years of platform engineering experience in high-growth, cloud-native SaaS environments (level varies)
  • Deep knowledge of GCP: IAM, VPC and networking, firewall and perimeter controls, KMS, secrets management, logging/monitoring, org-level policy
  • Understanding of network segmentation, private connectivity, zero-trust patterns, TLS/mTLS, securing traffic between services and externally
  • Experience designing reliable infrastructure and writing clean production code
  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform), and security gates at scale
  • Security mindset focused on enabling productivity and automation
  • Commercially minded with ability to balance infrastructure/security needs and business priorities
  • Bias for action with quick iteration, pragmatic shipping, and strong automation skills

Nice to Haves

  • Experience securing other cloud providers (AWS, Azure) or on-premise/hybrid environments
  • ISC2 or relevant cloud security certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer)
  • Experience with SaaS compliance programs such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
  • Open-source contributions to security, infrastructure, or developer-tooling projects

What You'll Be Doing

  • Working in a strong team of senior and staff engineers who push high standards
  • Operating with a modern, cloud-native stack (GCP, Terraform, TypeScript, Python)
  • Helping evolve infrastructure to defend against emerging threats and scale securely
  • Driving compliance goals and successfully handling audits
  • Owning problems end-to-end from brainstorming through production
  • Balancing heads-down technical work with collaboration with product engineers and leadership

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
  • Strong in-person culture with most team working from London office 4+ days/week
  • 25 days annual leave plus UK public holidays
  • Annual learning and development budget
  • Travel opportunities for customer visits, events, and conferences across UK and Europe
  • Daily company lunches
  • Monthly socials and bi-annual team offsites
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