Security Engineer – Cloud Migration to AWS

Version 1; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Career progression

Flexible/remote working

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Gym discounts

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to embed within a large-scale AWS migration programme. You will design, automating and enforcing security controls throughout the migration lifecycle — ensuring every workload lands in AWS with a secure, compliant, and auditable posture.

This role blends cloud security architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and Python automation, collaborating with migration teams to unblock issues and sustain delivery.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security engineering for cloud and migration projects.
• Experience securing production AWS environments and migrations.
• Strong scripting and automation in Python.
• Familiarity with IaC in production settings.

Responsibilities

• Define security controls, guardrails, and landing zone baselines for AWS migrations.
• Design and operate AWS-native security tooling across accounts and Organisations.
• Build security automation in Python and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain IaC for security services, IAM, networking, and encryption.
• Embed security into GitLab CI/CD pipelines with policy-as-code gates.
• Assess posture before, during, and after migration and remediate issues.

Skills

Python scripting

AWS security tooling

IaC (Terraform/CFN)

GitLab CI/CD

Network security

IAM & encryption

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS Config

GuardDuty

KMS/ACM

GitLab

Job description

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We're an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:

We're a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it's deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we'll invest in you.

Job Description

We are seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to embed within a large-scale cloud migration programme, moving workloads into AWS. You will be responsible for designing, automating, and enforcing security controls throughout the migration lifecycle — ensuring that every workload lands in AWS with a secure, compliant, and auditable posture. This is a technical, build-focused role combining cloud security architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and Python automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement the security controls, guardrails, and landing zone baseline for workloads migrating to AWS.
• Design and operate AWS-native security tooling across accounts and Organizations (see Technical Skills below).
• Build security automation in Python — remediation Lambdas, compliance-check scripts, event-driven response, and integrations with ticketing/SIEM systems.
• Author, review, and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) for security services, guardrails, IAM, networking, and encryption.
• Integrate security into GitLab CI/CD pipelines — SAST, IaC scanning, secrets detection, dependency/container scanning, and policy-as-code gates.
• Assess the security posture of workloads before, during, and after migration; identify and remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
• Design secure network segmentation and connectivity between source environments and AWS (Direct Connect / VPN, Transit Gateway, security groups, NACLs).
• Implement IAM least-privilege models, identity federation, and secrets management for migrated workloads.
• Define encryption standards (at rest and in transit) using KMS, ACM, and TLS policy.
• Support compliance and audit requirements (e.g. CIS Benchmarks, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS as applicable) and produce evidence.
• Partner with migration, platform, and application teams to unblock security issues without slowing delivery.
• Contribute to incident detection and response runbooks for the AWS environment.

Qualifications

Required Technical Skills

AWS Security Tooling

• AWS Security Hub – aggregated findings, standards, and posture management
• Amazon GuardDuty – threat detection
• AWS Config – configuration compliance and drift detection, custom/conformance rules
• AWS IAM / IAM Identity Center – least-privilege roles, policies, permission boundaries, federation
• AWS KMS & ACM – encryption key management and certificates
• AWS WAF & Shield – application and DDoS protection
• Amazon Inspector – vulnerability scanning for EC2/ECR/Lambda
• AWS CloudTrail – audit logging and monitoring
• AWS Organizations & Service Control Policies (SCPs) – multi-account guardrails
• AWS Secrets Manager / Systems Manager Parameter Store – secrets handling
• Amazon Macie – sensitive data discovery (desirable)
• AWS Control Tower / Landing Zone – governed account provisioning

Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code

• Python – security automation, boto3, Lambda functions, remediation scripts, custom Config rules
• Terraform – modules for security services, guardrails, IAM, networking
• CloudFormation – templates and (desirable) StackSets across accounts
• Familiarity with policy-as-code (e.g. OPA/Conftest, cfn-guard, Checkov, tfsec) is a strong plus

CI/CD & Version Control

• GitLab – repositories, merge requests, and GitLab CI/CD pipeline development
• Integrating security scanning into pipelines: SAST, DAST, IaC scanning, secrets scanning, SCA, container image scanning
• Git branching, code review, and shift-left security practices

Migration & Infrastructure

• Workload discovery and assessment ahead of migration
• AWS migration tooling (Application Migration Service / MGN, DMS, Migration Hub) – desirable
• Hybrid networking: Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, VPC design, security groups, NACLs
• Operating system security hardening (Linux and/or Windows)

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 4+ years in security engineering, cloud security, or infrastructure security (adjust to seniority).
• Demonstrable hands-on experience securing production AWS environments.
• Proven experience delivering or securing a cloud migration programme.
• Strong scripting/automation ability in Python.
• Experience with IaC (Terraform and/or CloudFormation) in a production setting.
• Comfortable working in a GitLab-based DevSecOps workflow.
• Solid understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards.

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [e-mail] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.