Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Form3 - External; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payment technology company is seeking a defensive security engineer to design, implement, and maintain security controls for their high-availability payment systems. Candidates should have extensive expertise in security practices, experience with public cloud security, and a strong background in engineering methodologies. The role offers a remote-first opportunity with responsibilities including advising on security measures and participating in on-call duties.

Qualifications

• Experience with security controls in large production environments.
• Knowledge of public cloud security features.
• Interest in offensive security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement defensive security measures.
• Guide engineering teams on security features.
• Maintain multi-cloud payment systems.

Skills

Linux command line

Security engineering expertise

Cloud security knowledge

Good engineering practices

On-call rotation readiness

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Golang

Terraform

Job description

THE ROLE

You'll design, implement, and maintain defensive security controls that protect our high‑availability, multi‑cloud payment systems built on modern technologies. Your deep understanding of current threats, exploitation methods, and risk trade‑offs will enable you to guide engineering teams on effective security features and ensure the right defensive measures are prioritised.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Essential

• You live on the linux command line
• Your current research and experience back up your opinionated views on security practices and trade‑offs, which you love to openly debate and willingly share
• You're sought after for your security engineering expertise, having built multiple security controls that are actively proven in large production estates
• Your security expertise extends to at least one public cloud, including essential security features and long‑term security hardening practices
• You appreciate building systems with good engineering practices and may have a background in software engineering at scale
• You're open to being a part of our on‑call rota, ready to respond if we have a severe, platform‑impacting security tooling failure or need second‑line security incident response assistance

Desirable

• You have an interest in offensive security, potentially including participation in CTFs and past experience as a red team operator or pen tester
• You've developed security configurations in multiple public and private clouds
• You're a confident presenter and have accelerated appreciation of security across engineering teams
• You regularly support building and analysis of threat models using a well defined process
• You have experience securing data centers and networking devices
• You're terrified by supply chain and CI/CD security, but have good patterns for reducing the risks
• Your engineering experiences matches Form3's tech stack - including Golang and Terraform

TECH STACK

• AWS, GCP, Azure and private Data Centers
• Kubernetes, Helm, Flux
• Distributed systems, mostly Golang based with CockroachDB and NATS
• SIEM/SOAR, EDR, CNAPP, and a suite of open source tools with custom integrations

THE TEAM

You will join a team of defensive security engineers directly maintaining and expanding security controls as well as advising the wider platform and application engineers within our R&D team. We report into the CISO and work alongside the other functional pillars of InfoSec.

INTERVIEW PROCESS

• Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
• Stage 2: Technical Interview - Building secure cloud architectures & team alignment
• Stage 3: Technical Interview - Container and Linux Security, including a short pre‑interview research topic
• We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we're hiring the right person!

HIRING LOCATIONS

We are a remote-first organisation and are able to accept applications from the following countries: Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal & UK.

ABOUT FORM3

Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting‑edge technology and innovative solutions.

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