Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Senior Cloud Security Engineer (London, Bracknell or Bristol)

We are HealthHero, Europe’s largest digital clinic. Join us at a pivotal moment as we scale our digital healthcare platform across Europe — giving you the chance to shape security at the heart of a fast-growing, AI-driven business. We are recruiting an exciting Senior Cloud Security Engineer on an initial 12 month fixed term contract, with a view to becoming permanent – based in either our London or Bristol office two days per week.

About the role

This role will form a fundamental part of a growing Platform Security function, where the team covers application security, cloud security, security operations, culture and risk management. As a tech-centric organisation the Information Security team will play a critical part in embedding a security-first mindset into application development and continuous application monitoring. This role will co-own the cloud security posture and tooling across HealthHero’s AWS and Azure estates and have the opportunity to tackle cloud security with an international scope. The role will be supported by a multidisciplinary force of Infrastructure, Data Governance and Engineering team leads with a security focus as part of their remit. The role has a focus on infrastructure and cloud networking when it comes to security posture.

As an experienced Cloud Security Engineer, your working day will include but not be limited to:

DevSecOps & SDLC

Champion integration of security testing into CI/CD pipelines across all development teams and usage of automated security gates: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection

Enable self-serve security tooling for development teams

Ability to set up development environment

Cloud Security

Own cloud security posture management using Wiz (or similar CSPM) Define and enforce cloud security baselines, guardrails, and policies in AWS

Implement and maintain IaC security scanning for Terraform

Manage IAM policies, network segmentation, and secrets management

Configure and tune SIEM (or similar) for cloud-focused detection

Establish logging, monitoring, and alerting requirements based on threat modelling

Investigate and respond to cloud security events

Risk & Compliance

Identify, articulate, and escalate security risks to senior leadership with mitigation plans

Track and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure

Manage customer initiatives related to due diligence when required to

Support and develop annual programme of Penetration Testing and associated remediations

Stakeholder Engagement

Partner with internal and stakeholder management to support any requirements from the security function - particularly governance and accreditation requirements across different countries

Provide expertise on emerging threats and vulnerabilities

Support response to customer/client due diligence requests with timely and accurate information regarding vulnerability exposure

Key Skills and Experience

Essential

Proven experience in application security, DevSecOps, or cloud security

Strong understanding of cloud networking

Experience securing cloud environments (AWS, Azure)

Ability to read and write IAC (Terraform) code, comfortable with IAC lifecycles

Familiarity with container security and Kubernetes

Understanding of secure coding, penetration testing techniques, SIEM, and vulnerability management

Strong technical skills relevant to Information Security such as secure coding standards, ethical hacking techniques, network security and risk analysis

Understanding of managing Secure Development Lifecycle and Vulnerability Management.

Understanding and practical experience of ISO27001:2022 controls and audit processes

Desirable

AWS Security Specialty or similar certification

Experience in regulated environments (healthcare, financial services)

Familiarity with NHS DSPT

Technical knowledge of GDPR and data protection requirements

Hands-on with CI/CD security tooling and pipeline integration

Interest in learning other countries health and security regulations (France / UK / IR / DE)