Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to protect and optimise our cloud infrastructure and platforms. You will lead the design, implementation and monitoring of security controls across Kubernetes‑based workloads, ensuring a resilient and compliant environment.

Key responsibilities

• Review existing Kubernetes clusters, workloads and security configurations to identify gaps against industry best practices.
• Work with the Platform team to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and Helm chart deployments.
• Design, configure and deploy Falco on Kubernetes, creating custom rules to detect suspicious activity and policy violations.
• Integrate Falco alerts with logging, monitoring and SIEM solutions, defining severity levels and response procedures.
• Validate Falco detections through testing and maintain up‑to‑date documentation, playbooks and runbooks.
• Assist in triage and investigation of runtime security alerts and share knowledge with Cloud Security and Platform teams.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in IT or security roles with a focus on cloud environments.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to correlate data from multiple sources.
• Self‑motivated, collaborative and able to build trustworthy relationships with stakeholders.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Falco
• SIEM tools (e.g., Splunk, Rapid7, ELK, QRadar)
• Linux system administration
• Command‑line interfaces
• Scripting languages: Python, Bash, PowerShell, AWS Lambda