Cloud Security Engineer

Hybrid in Warwick·Added today (last checked 28 Oct)

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Adecco UK

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Our summary

Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 a year
About £4,020 - £4,500 a month after tax.
Work mode: Hybrid, Warwick
Contract: Permanent

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

Proven experience in a Cloud Security, Cyber Security or Security Engineering role.
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure security.
Good understanding of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security.
Experience with Microsoft Defender and broader Microsoft security technologies.
Knowledge of identity and access management, including Conditional Access.
Experience working with cloud security monitoring and posture management tools.
Ability to interpret security findings and drive meaningful remediation activities.
Comfortable operating across a broad range of security responsibilities in a fast-paced environment.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

The role

Location: Hybrid (On-site 1-2 times per month)
Salary: Up to £75,000 + Benefits
Clearance: Must be eligible for SC Clearance

My client is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join a growing cyber security function responsible for securing and enhancing enterprise cloud environments. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working across a broad range of cloud security disciplines, driving security improvements, and helping shape security best practices across modern cloud platforms.

The successful candidate will play a key role in identifying security risks, improving security posture, and ensuring cloud technologies are deployed and operated securely across Azure and GCP environments.

What you'll do

Drive security improvements across cloud infrastructure and services.
Monitor, investigate and remediate cloud security risks and vulnerabilities.
Manage and optimise cloud security tooling, ensuring alerts and findings are effectively interpreted and actioned.
Administer and enhance Microsoft security technologies, including Microsoft Defender.
Implement and maintain Conditional Access policies and identity security controls.
Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and engineering teams to embed security best practices.
Support security governance, compliance and risk management activities.
Contribute to incident response and security investigations where required.
Help develop and improve security standards, procedures and controls.

Additional Information

Hybrid working model with on-site attendance required once or twice per month.
Remote on-call support will form part of the role, with participation expected within the first six months.
Typical on-call rota expected to be approximately 1 in 5 / 1 in 6.
Candidates must be eligible to obtain SC Clearance.

If you are passionate about cloud security and enjoy working in a hands-on role where you can influence security improvements across a complex environment, we would like to hear from you.

About Adecco UK

Adecco is a workforce solutions and recruitment company that describes itself as the world's number one workforce solutions business. It places over 700,000 individuals in roles every day, draws on more than 60 years of recruitment experience, and employs 38,000 people worldwide.

Its services include permanent, temporary, managed and outsourced recruitment, with the resources to manage workforces ranging from 50 to 20,000+ workers for organisations of all sizes, across the public and private sectors.