Security Cloud Engineer

Vallum Associates; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates in Manchester is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to drive secure cloud platform enhancements, collaborating with engineering teams to design, build, and deliver cloud services aligned with strategy and governance.

The role emphasizes enabling cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices, implementing CI/CD pipelines, automating security, and monitoring with SIEM and observability tools, while supporting incident and change management in a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive cloud infrastructure enhancements in line with strategy, security standards, and business requirements.
• Work with engineering teams to design, build, and deliver secure cloud services.
• Support stakeholders in adopting cloud-native application architectures and DevOps practices.
• Translate high-level and low-level designs into actionable technical implementation plans.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for secure application and infrastructure deployment.
• Automate cloud security processes, escalations, and remediation activities.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure follows security, governance, compliance, and software lifecycle standards.
• Monitor cloud environments using SIEM, cloud security tooling, and observability platforms.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Work with container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, AKS, or GKE.
• Support infrastructure automation using tools such as CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Chef, or similar tools.

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS/EKS

AKS

GKE

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Terraform

Chef

Job description

• Drive cloud infrastructure enhancements in line with agreed strategy, security standards, and business requirements.
• Work with engineering teams to design, build, and deliver secure cloud services.
• Support stakeholders in adopting cloud-native application architectures and DevOps practices.
• Translate high-level and low-level designs into actionable technical implementation plans.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for secure application and infrastructure deployment.
• Automate cloud security processes, escalations, and remediation activities.
• Ensure cloud infrastructure follows security, governance, compliance, and software lifecycle standards.
• Monitor cloud environments using SIEM, cloud security tooling, and observability platforms.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Work with container platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS, AKS, or GKE.
• Support infrastructure automation using tools such as CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Terraform, Chef, or similar tools.