Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant New London - Hybrid (2 days in office per week)

Control Plane Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Control Plane Limited is on the lookout for a Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant based in London. In this pivotal role, you will lead engagements, design security architectures for cloud environments, and promote security best practices. Your responsibilities will encompass both client consulting and internal projects, ensuring robust security measures are implemented across various platforms, including Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. With a commitment to community engagement, this position also offers numerous opportunities for professional development and collaboration.

Benefits

Generous and competitive salary

Bonus

33 days of paid holiday

Cycle to Work scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

Private Medical insurance

Individual training budget for personal development

10 days for training

7.5 days to attend and present at conferences

10 days company research and development time

Qualifications

• Experience leading cloud security architecture engagements.
• Strong background in security operations and incident response.
• Proficient with Kubernetes and Docker security.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end security architectures for cloud infrastructure.
• Lead security engagements and manage client relationships.
• Conduct threat modeling and run incident response exercises.

Skills

Threat Modelling

Cloud Security Architecture

Security Operations

Incident Response

DevSecOps Principles

Kubernetes

CI/CD Practices

Security Tooling Knowledge

Education

OSCP

Cloud Provider Security Certifications

CISSP

Job description

Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant

London - Hybrid (2 days in office per week)

Report To: Security Engineering Manager

Job Location: London - Hybrid (2 days in office per week)

Employment Status: Full Time

Salary: Competitive and Market Based

Who is ControlPlane?

ControlPlane is a London headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open source solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." This engineering excellence has driven ControlPlane deeper into cybersecurity providing services like threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security to ensure robust protection against cyberattacks in containerised and cloud-native environments.

We are acclaimed for our contributions to securing highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help businesses improve their security posture through services like DevSecOps consulting, zero-trust architectures, and platform engineering. ControlPlane also focuses on advancing best practices in the Kubernetes ecosystem, offering specialised training and community engagement.

Our clients range from multinational banks to tech giants and public clouds, where we assist with both security and operational needs. In addition to consulting, we are active in the open source community, supporting projects like Flux CD and providing security tools for Kubernetes environments.

Over the coming years you’ll see us retain our focus on solving difficult problems for clients with intense security controls using pragmatic, real world solutions. Taking our extensive R&D to help organisations consume next generation and open source projects safely and securely - that might be extending our work with FINOS AI Readiness or the overhaul of open source supply chain security.

What We're Looking For in a Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant:

As a Principal level consultant you will represent the technical and cultural values of ControlPlane, leading our customers by example in the complex and fast-changing world of cloud native technology. You will assume end to end responsibilities accross a mix of client consulting and internal projects

You will be comfortable leading engagements and defining end-to-end security architectures for cloud infrastructure, through a mixture of threat modelling and proof of concepts. You will also have insight into security operations and incident response for cloud environments, with experience of defining events, SOC integration & engineering and running table top exercises for incident response

We're looking for principal level skill sets. You should have strong knowledge of container and cloud security architecture principles, and you enjoy getting hands-on, experimenting with cloud infrastructure, and want to expand your horizons in this area. You value transparency and candid feedback, and are driven by a strong desire to become the best you can be.

ControlPlane thrives on community participation and collaboration through meetups and conferences, working groups, and training. We encourage our employees to be passionate about sharing information with friends and colleagues.

You may be asked to:

- Actively participate to Special Interest Groups and Technical Advisory Groups with our business partners, collaborators, and friends

- Deliver Kubernetes Security and Kubernetes Threat Modeling training

- Attend conferences and meetups in the UK and abroad

This is a unique job role within a successful start-up company where you will have the chance to make a positive impact, learn, grow and work with great colleagues who consistently challenge the status quo.

Roles, Responsibilities and Requirements of Our Cloud Native Security Consultant:

• Experience of leading Threat Modelling engagements or designing Cloud Native security architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Security Operations and Incident Response experience within a cloud environment, including defining events, SOC engineering and running table top exercises
• Consulting experience including managing engagements, running workshops and presenting to project security authorities.
• Kubernetes and container experience (some of EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, and container runtimes)
• DevSecOps principles and Engineering practices
• CI/CD experience, automating security tests and hardening pipelines
• Knowledge of security tooling from enterprise tools such as Aqua, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig, Splunk and Logrythm to Open Source tools such as falco, kube-hunter, and kube-bench.
• Knowledge and experience of hardening guides, compliance standards and MITRE ATT&CK and Adversary Tools, Techniques and Procedures.
• Security related qualifications such as OSCP, Cloud Provider Security certifications, or CISSP

A desire to learn, or experience with:

• CLI tooling in any of the above technologies.
• Golang or Python
• Vault, service mesh, in-toto, Tekton Chains, SPIFFE, and/or Sigstore
• Terraform and cloud infrastructure best practices (IaC, regulated systems)

ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting edge and passionate business for which to work. Our employees are the heart of our business, which means we care about our company culture and our employees’ wellbeing and progression. Alongside this, as our colleague you will have the following benefits:

• Generous and competitive salary
• Bonus
• 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Private Medical insurance
• An individual training budget for personal development, including but not limited to:
• Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget)
• Qualifications
• Conferences
• 10 days for training
• 7.5 days to attend and present at conferences
• 10 days company research and development time

We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We’re looking for people of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a good work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who know that “we” is more than “me”, and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. As we grow you will help us to build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you espouse these values, we want you!

NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please do not call or email our team speculatively, we do not accept unsolicited CVs.

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