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applications in collaboration with DevOps teams. Conduct ongoing security assessments, configuration reviews, and audits of AWS environments to identify vulnerabilities and recommend remediation. Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned to ISO 27001, NIST and cloud security best practices. Develop security automation tooling, scripts, and infrastructure as code processes to streamline security operations. Take ownership of security engineering projects, delivering them end to end with strong attention to detail and high quality documentation. Work in aself managing, proactivemanner - anticipating security needs, identifying gaps, and driving improvements without close supervision. Respond to SOC alerts for our outsourced SOC Lead and participate in global incident response activities, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery. Perform advanced log analysis, digital forensics, and threat validation using AWS native and third party tooling. Monitor AWS/Azure and application security alerts, responding quickly and decisively. Participate in an out of hours when required (Time in Lieu given), including early morning collaboration with Australia based teams and responding to major incidents. Document all incident activity clearly and thoroughly in tickets, knowledge bases, and post incident reports. Carryout threat models and review log ingestion and alerting with the SOC Security Collaboration & EnablementProvide expert guidance and mentorship to development, engineering and operations teams. Collaborate across multiple time zones, contributing proactively and reliably to global security initiatives. Stay ahead of emerging cloud threats, AWS security tooling, and defensive techniques, champion their adoption across the organisation. Produce clear, detailed, and structured documentation for tickets, processes, runbooks, and security standards. Who we're looking forAt Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don't worry if you don't meet all of them, we'd still like to hear from you. Minimum 3 years' hands on experiencein cloud security or security engineering within an AWS focused DevOps environment. Strong technical proficiency acrossAWS servicesincluding IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and core networking concepts. Deep, practical experience in incident responseincluding digital forensics, log analysis, threat detection, and handling security incidents end to end. Experience with AWS security tooling such asSecurity Hub, GuardDuty, Detective, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Inspector , and related cloud native controls. Practical experience withscripting(Python preferred) andInfrastructure as Codetooling such as Terraform. Solid understanding ofISO 27001 ,NIST CSF , and cloud security best practices. Familiarity with commonly usedopen-source security testing tools(e.g., BurpSuite, ZAP, Nikto, Metasploit, SQLmap). Highlyself managing , able to take ownership of work, prioritise effectively, and drive tasks to completion with minimal oversight. Proactivein identifying security gaps, recommending improvements, and staying ahead of emerging threats. Strongattention to detail , especially in technical execution, documentation, and ticketing. Excellent communication skills, able to work with both technical and non-technical teams across multiple time zones. Comfortable participating inout of hours incident responsewhen required. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exposure to threat intelligence, cloud forensics, or advanced SOC workflows. Experience working in a global or distributed security team What your impact and success looks likeAs a Security Engineer we expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this: Within 1 monthFamiliarity with Company Policies and Security Infrastructure Familiarity with AWS Security Best Practices and the business Setup Within 3 monthsSecurity Incident Handling and Remediation Security Automation and Tooling Security Compliance and Auditing Collaboration with Development Teams Within 6 monthsThreat Modelling and Risk Assessment Security Incident Management What's in it for you?We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would like for you to work from our Solihull office, 2 days a week. We're offering the chance to really make a difference here at Reapit and the opportunity for personal growth is very real. Don't tick all the boxes? Neither do weWe care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we're driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our employees#J-18808-Ljbffr Similar jobs
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