Octopus Energy is hiring a
Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Cloud Security Engineer at KrakenFlex, a company in the energy industry that aims to be a leading global provider of solutions for distributed energy resources. The role involves securing the cloud environment, integrating security practices, and shaping a culture of security. The position requires a strong technical security background, experience with cloud technologies, especially AWS, and incident response planning, vulnerability management, and security event management.

Requirements

• A strong technical security background
• Multiple years of experience working with cloud technologies, preferably with a security focus. AWS certification is really welcomed
• Competence in incident response planning, vulnerability management, security event management, supported by strong knowledge of tooling and detection techniques
• Firm understanding of IAM and RBAC, with emphasis on applying Least Privilege principle
• Strong experience in implementing and automating security best-practices
• Experience working with teams around the globe
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK

Responsibilities

• Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained security observability of cloud environment and actionable alerting
• Monitor and respond to security incidents and vulnerabilities, and remediate security misconfigurations
• Design and implement secure cloud architecture
• Implement standards and policies to safeguard workloads and the cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate security best practices into cloud-based applications
• Plan and implement solutions for backup and recovery, high availability, secrets & key management, and other strategic initiatives
• Conduct regular security checks and audits, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Act as a technical security professional, providing advice and guidance to other team members and the wider business
• Help cultivate a strong technical security culture across the organisation
• Collaborate with external pen-testing company to help evaluate the security for all aspects of our cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Foundational networking knowledge, such as switching, firewalls, routing and DNS
• AWS networking knowledge, such as VPCs, Transit Gateways and how this works in a multi-region environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and role
• Work with an award-winning UK energy supplier, Octopus Energy
• Opportunity to work on projects that break new ground
• Work in an organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker
• Work with autonomy alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners
• Perks that you actually care about