Cloud Security Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & PoCs

Google; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security Platform Engineer to join the UK Security Operations team in Public Sector, London or Wiltshire satellite site. The role focuses on designing and operating private cloud security, enforcing Kubernetes protections, and building automation for Red Team and attack-path reviews.

Require deep cloud and platform automation experience, DV UK security clearance, and a willingness to participate in rotating on-call shifts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in security engineering, offensive security (Red Team/Purple Team), or platform engineering roles.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps (e.g., Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and cloud-native security orchestration.
• Experience with Kubernetes security (e.g., workload isolation, RBAC, network policies) and container orchestration.
• Experience in scripting and development languages (e.g., Python, Go) for building custom security tooling, automation, and exploit PoCs.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a Developed Vetting (DV) UK security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation platforms and tooling for Red Team operations, Purple Team exercises, and attack-path reviews.
• Create and deploy PoCs to proactively test and harden cloud infrastructure security.
• Collaborate with security engineering and platform teams to build scalable security validation frameworks for CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyze complex cloud and Kubernetes architectures to identify attack vectors and map them to threat models.
• Support defensive hardening by providing telemetry and insights from validation exercises to improve detection and response.

Skills

Security engineering

Red Team / Purple Team

Platform engineering

Scripting (Python/Go)

Cloud-native security orchestration

Kubernetes security

Terraform / Helm / ArgoCD

DV UK security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Google is seeking a Security Platform Engineer to join the UK Security Operations team in Public Sector, London or Wiltshire satellite site. The role focuses on designing and operating private cloud security, enforcing Kubernetes protections, and building automation for Red Team and attack-path reviews.

Require deep cloud and platform automation experience, DV UK security clearance, and a willingness to participate in rotating on-call shifts.