Senior Security Engineer

Job Title: Senior Security Engineer

Industry: IT Services

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Location: Remote (Must be UK based)

Day Rate: £650 - £750 per day *Inside IR35*

The Role:

• Audit, harden and monitor a GCP environment, covering Security Command Center, IAM least privilege, Cloud Armor, KMS encryption, OS Login and GKE network policies
• Build automated security guardrails into GitLab pipelines, integrating SBOM, SAST and DAST scanning and enforcing policy as code across Terraform
• Own the end to end secrets lifecycle using Google Secret Manager and KMS, including rotation and access policies
• Define logging and observability standards, including VPC flow logs, to support real time incident detection and reporting
• Implement and automate host hardening, including Shielded VM configuration with secure boot and vTPM
• Act as the technical lead with the MDR partner, integrating with internal NOC and SOC operations
• Lead security operations and incident response, including a structured out of hours on call rotation for high severity threats (compensated separately via callout pay)
• Run regular threat modelling sessions and architecture reviews to catch risks early in the development lifecycle

Skills Needed:

• 5+ years in security engineering, cloud engineering or SRE within a modern cloud environment
• Deep hands on GCP experience (IAM, Workload Identity, VPC, Org Policy, Security Command Center)
• Strong containerisation skills (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong Terraform and GitLab CI experience, embedding automated security guardrails into pipelines
• Scripting or development ability in Python, Go or Bash for building internal security tools
• Track record owning incident response, detection engineering, vulnerability management and WAF/DDoS mitigation
• Practical experience designing least privilege IAM and maturing environments toward zero trust

Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don't tick every single box, please still apply. We'd love to hear from you.