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# SC Cleared Cloud Security Engineer

- **Company:** Pab Staffing Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £65,276.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Encodings, Continuous Integration, Github, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Segmentation, TypeScript, Software Vulnerability Management, Data Logging, Delivery Pipeline, SC Clearance, Opsworks, Terraform, Static Application Security Testing
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5918157911

## About the Role

* Active UK SC Clearance in place at mobilisation
 * Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience with a clear focus on cloud security and identity
 * Strong production experience with Terraform, including reusable module design and state management
 * Hands-on Python and TypeScript experience
 * Strong GitHub and GitHub Actions experience, including security tooling within pipelines
 * Experience with cloud security controls and secure-by-design principles
 * Experience implementing security controls as code, * AWS Security Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification
 * UK public sector delivery experience
 * Container security experience with ECS or EKS
 * Exposure to NCSC guidance, Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) or Cyber Essentials Plus

## Description

We are looking for an experienced SC Cleared Cloud Security Engineer to join a hands-on cloud security engineering team supporting secure cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines.

This is an engineering-focused role. You will be responsible for implementing security controls directly within cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines rather than providing purely advisory or architectural guidance., * Define and deploy AWS infrastructure using Terraform, embedding security controls such as IAM policies, network segmentation, encryption and logging

 * Implement and maintain preventative and detective AWS security guardrails, including Service Control Policies, AWS Config, Security Hub and GuardDuty
 * Integrate security testing into GitHub Actions pipelines, including SAST, dependency scanning, IaC scanning and secrets detection
 * Triage and address security findings identified through CI/CD security tooling
 * Implement secrets and key management in line with security policies
 * Develop Python and TypeScript automation and tooling to support vulnerability management and security control evidence collection
 * Produce security control evidence suitable for assurance activities such as CAF, GovAssure or equivalent
 * Maintain technical documentation and sprint artefacts using Confluence and Jira