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.
Responsibilities
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 elevate security risks to senior leadership with mitigation plans.
- Track and remediate vulnerabilities across infrastructure.
- Manage customer initiatives related to due diligence when required.
- Support and develop annual programme of Penetration Testing and associated remediations.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders 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).
Location
Hybrid: London, Bracknell or Bristol (there is a requirement to work in the office for a minimum of two days per week).
Equality, Inclusivity and Diversity
In line with our commitment to Equality, Inclusivity and Diversity, we welcome and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates from all backgrounds. We are committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and aim to establish an inclusive working environment. As such, we welcome diverse applications from candidates irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
We are a certified Disability Confident Employer and are committed to affording equal opportunities for candidates with disabilities or special needs. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made at any part of your application process, please let us know by contacting the recruitment team.
Safeguarding
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Additional information
We reserve the right to close this job in the event we receive a sufficient number of applications.
We are unfortunately unable to offer a sponsor licence to candidates who require sponsorship from their employer.
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