Staff Cloud Security Engineer — Cloud-Native & Compliance

Encord; City Of London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

UK office in London

Annual learning & development budget

Travel to customer visits

Job summary

Encord is hiring for senior-level platform security roles to safeguard high‑value data in regulated environments. The role emphasizes cloud security, network controls, and secure, scalable infrastructure in a cloud-native SaaS context.

Ideal candidates bring a product/infrastructure background with a security focus, and a mindset of enabling engineers to move fast and securely. The team collaborates closely with product and engineering leadership in a high-growth setup.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of GCP: IAM, VPC and networking, firewall and perimeter controls, KMS, secrets management, logging/monitoring, and org-level policy.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures and trade-offs.
• Experience with network segmentation, private connectivity, zero-trust patterns, TLS/mTLS, and securing service communication.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive security posture across cloud-native platform.
• Lead initiatives to attain and maintain higher levels of compliance certification.
• Automate security controls and improve feedback loops for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to balance security with velocity.

Skills

Cloud security

Network security

Platform engineering

Security as an enabler

Automation

Commercially minded

Tools

GCP IAM

VPC & Networking

KMS & Secrets management

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Encord is hiring for senior-level platform security roles to safeguard high‑value data in regulated environments. The role emphasizes cloud security, network controls, and secure, scalable infrastructure in a cloud-native SaaS context.

Ideal candidates bring a product/infrastructure background with a security focus, and a mindset of enabling engineers to move fast and securely. The team collaborates closely with product and engineering leadership in a high-growth setup.