Senior Cloud Security Engineer – AI Guardrails

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Tendring; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build and run security solutions for our cloud-native platforms. You will partner with engineering, product and security teams to bake security into software design, code deployment and operational practices across markets.

You will conduct vulnerability scans, access monitoring and AI security guardrails, translating risk into practical guidance for developers.

Qualifications

• Practical experience writing and deploying applications or tooling into cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong, demonstrable skills deploying AI security solutions, guardrails, and defences for AI systems used by customers.
• Proficiency in at least one of C#, Python, Java, PowerShell or Bash, with a track record of automating security processes.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Compliance as Code practices.
• Comfort operating in Agile, DevOps-driven teams with frequent, continuous delivery.
• Confident stakeholder management, translating security risk and technical decisions into language product and engineering teams act on.
• A collaborative, evangelist mindset, building trust so others choose secure defaults rather than having security imposed on them.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy security controls and guardrails across JET's cloud-native platforms, including AI security solutions protecting customer-facing products.
• Run password audits, network and web application vulnerability scans, and intrusion detection to identify and close gaps before they're exploited.
• Automate security processes as code, embedding compliance and IaC checks into CI/CD pipelines shipping over 100 times daily.
• Conduct risk audits and assessments, translating findings into practical recommendations for engineering teams.
• Monitor and analyse system access logs, flagging anomalies and supporting incident response.
• Plan and test security backup and disaster recovery processes to keep JET's platforms resilient.
• Partner with 1st and 2nd line InfoSec teams as customers of your solutions, translating technical work for product and engineering audiences.

Skills

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

AI security

Scripting: C#/Python/Java

Infrastructure as Code

DevOps / Agile

Stakeholder communication

Security incident response

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build and run security solutions for our cloud-native platforms. You will partner with engineering, product and security teams to bake security into software design, code deployment and operational practices across markets.

You will conduct vulnerability scans, access monitoring and AI security guardrails, translating risk into practical guidance for developers.