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Principal Security Engineer - Hybrid Cloud
£30,000 - 60,000
hackajob
63 Gee Street, Second Floor, Bristol
£30,000 - 60,000
Requirements
Must:
- 10+ years in cybersecurity or secure systems engineering, ideally in cloud, SaaS, or complex hybrid environments
- Proven experience securing large-scale multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, ideally GCP) environments
- Offensive security capability: able to exploit, assess, and harden systems across the stack
- Strong understanding of application security, OWASP Top 10, SSRF, RCE, privilege escalation, etc.
- Hands-on DevSecOps experience embedding automation into pipelines
- Expertise across IAM, encryption, secrets management, key rotation, and zero-trust
- Experience with vulnerability management (Qualys, Tenable) and operationalising findings
- Strategic mindset with the ability to translate threat insights into engineering action
- Certifications (OSCP, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty) are beneficial but not essential
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end security posture across infrastructure, networking, data, and application layers
- Serve as the primary interface between Platform Engineering and the Security organisation
- Drive continuous improvement in security maturity, embedding best practices into design, development, and operations
- Lead security reviews for all platform services and ensure secure-by-design delivery
- Perform hands-on offensive security testing across services and infrastructure
- Own and manage vulnerability outputs from Qualys and similar tooling; prioritise remediation and drive accountability
- Define and enforce secure coding practices across platform teams
- Architect secure designs across networking, IAM, data security, and secrets management
- Collaborate with cloud teams to ensure secure configuration across AWS, Azure, and GCP edge services
- Build automation for scanning, compliance, and policy enforcement within CI/CD
- Mentor engineers and uplift security capability across the organisation
- Maintain clear documentation of security posture, architecture, and mitigations
- Align with Security Operations, Compliance, and Risk teams regarding ISO27001, SOC2, NIST, and CIS
- Lead technical aspects of any security incidents
- Educate teams on emerging threats and best-practice mitigation techniques
Description
At OneAdvanced, we are one of the UKs largest providers of business software and services, serving over 20,000 global customers with an annual turnover exceeding £330M. Our mission is to power the world of work, and our software underpins some of the UKs most critical sectors. We invest in our brilliant people, fostering a diverse, inclusive, and engaging workplace that empowers their growth and talent. We offer a supportive environment with an emphasis on wellbeing, financial security, and personal development, along with opportunities to make a positive impact in the community.
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