Cloud Security Engineer

Working as a key member of the Cyber Defence team, the Cloud Security Engineer will use a variety of tools and techniques to research, risk assess and mitigate security vulnerabilities and compliance issues across HL's Cloud estate, delivering cloud security integration projects and BAU activities. You will provide technical guidance to the HL Cloud Platforms teams, to ensure AWS security engineering best practices to securely build and scale cloud-native infrastructure and applications.

What you'll be doing

• Assist in assessing IaC designs, their implementation into production, automating where possible, and documenting solutions leveraging Amazon Web Service (AWS) and other third-party solutions.
• Assist security engineering within HLs cloud infrastructure team to build and improve security logging and native AWS tooling.
• Manage the AWS cloud security logging capabilities, ensuring these are functioning correctly at all times.
• Document the security tooling, enabling other teams to architect and build solutions which conform to the structure.
• Assist the lead cloud security engineer by providing subject matter expertise as it relates to AWS cloud platforms and emerging cloud technologies.
• Delivery of security analysis, recommendations, projects and compliance methods and practice.
• Assist in the design of a strategy to create a custom automated methodology for identifying potential security principles violations and providing increased early detection capabilities using SIEM & CSPM tools.

• In-depth knowledge of tools and technologies being used in cloud environments to provide security controls and assessments of the applications.
• 2 years experience working with AWS native security services (inc. Lambda, Kenisis Firehose).
• 1 year experience using SIEM platforms.

This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. For this role, we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office., * Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review

• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year
• dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments. To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.