Senior Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) - Engine by Starling

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer (GCP), you will be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You will be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture)
• Design, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code
• Be part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place
• Engineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS
• Drive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments
• Perform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions
• Lead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches
• Support our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams

Requirements:

• Mature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record
• Experience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls
• A deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations
• Experience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL)
• Expertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform
• Experience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center
• Experience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis
• Experience with key and secret management on GCP , Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager , including cryptographic key ceremonies
• Experience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD
• Experience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services
• Strong programming skills , in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them
• In-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies
• Knowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics)
• The ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications
• The ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders
• Excellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security
• The ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us
• A proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques
• Thorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned)

Benefits:

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Incentives refer a friend scheme
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing