Senior/Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Femtech Insider Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Paid holidays and sick leave

Sabbatical after 5 years

Flo Premium for friends & family

Learning support and professional成长

Job summary

Flo is the world’s leading women’s health and digital health platform, embedding security by design as we scale. We are seeking an experienced Cloud Security Engineer to join the Velocity team and ensure secure-by-default infrastructure across cloud, containers, and pipelines.

The role requires deep AWS security expertise, Terraform/Terragrunt proficiency, and a strong automation mindset to drive secure software delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS security services and best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes security, image hardening, and admission control.
• Identity management principles: SSO, OAuth, JWT, SAML.
• Automation mindset; ability to script in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Network security fundamentals and practical application.
• SSDLC: integrating secure development lifecycle into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Embed security into the platform by baking security into core stack and making it invisible to developers.
• Automate security across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container lifecycles.
• Own and strengthen Flo's AWS security posture using GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, and SSM Patch Manager.
• Harden container image security end-to-end; patch vulnerabilities automatically and verify images with Cosign/Sigstore.
• Manage policy-as-code for CI/CD security with Kyverno, Checkov to enforce standards programmatically.
• Build security observability with dashboards and metrics using Databricks or Looker.
• Support high-scale privacy features and nurture Flo's security culture through collaboration.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS security

Infrastructure as Code

Container security

IAM & SSO

Automation scripts

Network security

SSDLC

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes security

Cosign/Sigstore

Kyverno

Checkov

GuardDuty

Inspector

Security Hub

SSM Patch Manager

Job description

500M+ downloads. 80M+ monthly users. A decade of building - and we're still accelerating.

Flo is the world’s #1 health & fitness app worldwide on a mission to build a better future for female health. Backed by a $200M investment led by General Atlantic, we became the first product of our kind to reach a $1B valuation in 2024 – and we’re not slowing down.

With 7M paid subscribers and the highest-rated experience in the App Store’s health category, we’ve spent 10 years earning trust at scale. Now, we’re building the next generation of digital health – AI-powered, privacy-first, clinically backed – to help our users know their body better.

The job

The Scale of the Challenge

At Flo we don't just have users, we have a global community. We are the #1 women's health app, in the last month alone, we saw 8.6M new installs and a 2.8M increase in active users.

When millions of people trust you with their most personal health data, security isn't a feature — it's a foundation. We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to join Velocity, our Internal Platform team. Your mission is to ensure that every system, pipeline, and tool our engineers rely on is secure by default — so they can ship fast without ever compromising trust.

The Mission: Velocity

The Velocity team exists to eliminate friction. We build and own the foundation everything else runs on: cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and SRE practices. You will:

• Embed Security Into the Platform: Bake security, compliance, and best practices into the core stack so they're invisible to developers and impossible to skip.
• Automate Everything: Drive security-as-code across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container lifecycles — making manual gates a thing of the past.

What You Will Do

• Cloud Security Posture: Own and continuously strengthen Flo's AWS security posture using tools like GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, and SSM Patch Manager.
• Container & Supply Chain Security: Harden container image security end-to-end — patch vulnerabilities automatically with Copacetic, sign and verify images with Cosign/Sigstore, and enforce policies at admission with Kyverno.
• Policy as Code: Manage CI/CD security across the organisation using policy-as-code tooling (Kyverno, Checkov), ensuring standards are enforced programmatically.
• Security Observability: Build visibility into security performance by measuring and visualising actionable metrics using tools like Databricks Dashboards or Looker.
• High-Scale Privacy: Support the infrastructure for industry-leading privacy features, such as our TIME-recognised "Anonymous Mode."
• Culture & Thought Leadership: Shape Flo's broader security culture through proactive engagement, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

What You Bring

• Experience: 7+ years in Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering roles.
• Cloud Native Mastery: Deep expertise in AWS security services and best practices is essential.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient in Terraform and Terragrunt — you run everything as code.
• Container Security: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes security, image hardening, and admission control.
• Identity & Access: Solid understanding of identity management principles — SSO, OAuth, JWT, SAML.
• Automation Mindset: Comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or similar to automate security workflows.
• Network Security: Understanding of modern network security principles and their practical application.
• SSDLC: Experience building Secure Software Development Lifecycle phases into engineering workflows.

Bonus Points

• Experience with security monitoring and event correlation systems (IDS/IPS, SIEM, AWS-native tooling).
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and its implementations (e.g., Cloudflare).
• Familiarity with secret management processes and tools.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS and preferably GCP).
• Understanding of business continuity principles (BIA, DRP).
• Professional accreditations such as AWS Security Specialty, CKS, or CISSP.

Why Join Flo?

• High Impact: Your work directly protects the health data of millions - Flo is rewriting women's health, and you'll make sure it's done securely.
• Autonomy: We hire experts and empower you to deliver.
• Cutting-Edge Stack: Work with modern security tooling (GuardDuty, Kyverno, Cosign, Elastic Cloud Security) deployed on real production infrastructure at massive scale.

How we work

We're a mission-led, product-driven team. We move fast, stay focused and take ownership – from brief to build to impact. Debate is encouraged. Decisions are shared. We care about craft, ship with purpose, and always raise the bar.

You'll be working with people who take their work seriously, not themselves. It takes commitment, resilience, and the drive to keep going when things get tough. Because better health outcomes are worth it.

What you'll get

We support impact with meaningful reward. Here's what that looks like:

• Competitive salary and annual reviews
• Opportunity to participate in Flo’s performance incentive scheme
• Paid holiday, sick leave, and female health leave
• Enhanced parental leave and pay for maternity, paternity, same-sex and adoptive parents
• Accelerated professional growth through world-changing work and learning support
• In-person collaboration and work in a hybrid model, with 3 days per week spent in the office
• 5-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year Floversary
• Flo Premium for friends & family, plus more health, pension and wellbeing perks

Diversity, equity and inclusion

Our strength is in our differences. At Flo, hiring is based on merit, skill and what you bring to the role – nothing else. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, communities and identities.

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