Staff GCP Cloud Security Engineer

Starling Bank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Birthday leave

Pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Engine by Starling is seeking a Security Engineer to secure and scale our GCP-based infrastructure. You will own cloud identity, access controls, and secure deployments across multiple environments, collaborating with security, infra, and development teams.

You will design and automate controls, perform risk assessments, and drive compliance efforts (PCI DSS/3DS) while mentoring engineers in secure development practices.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture with deep GCP expertise.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain secure GCP architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, posture).

Skills

GCP security architecture

GCP IAM

Kubernetes security

Terraform

Security monitoring

Incident response

Python/Go scripting

Security best practices

Threat modelling

Cloud identity management

Education

Cybersecurity certifications (CISSP/CCSP)

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes (GKE)

Terraform

Artifact Registry

Cloud KMS

Job description

Engine by Starling is seeking a Security Engineer to secure and scale our GCP-based infrastructure. You will own cloud identity, access controls, and secure deployments across multiple environments, collaborating with security, infra, and development teams.

You will design and automate controls, perform risk assessments, and drive compliance efforts (PCI DSS/3DS) while mentoring engineers in secure development practices.