Day Rate: Market Rate

Job Description:

The Cloud Security Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the secure delivery and operation of AWS components and environments through Infrastructure as Code. This requires working with a team of security specialists and engineers, with technical architects translating architectural designs into operations. The role would suit a dynamic and motivated individual with strong problem-solving skills, the ability to work under pressure, and a commitment to maintaining high quality standards. This is a critical position in shaping Social Security Scotland's future technology capability to support business outcomes.

Main Duties:

• On-going build and maintenance of the Social Security infrastructure environments and security components
• The creation and maintenance of the Social Security Cloud security infrastructure, utilising appropriate tools for identifying and correcting complex issues.
• Planning and scheduling of appropriate cloud infrastructure releases in line with release and change management procedures.
• Develop and maintain the necessary pipelines and tooling to support the Social Security DevSecOps cloud practices.
• Maintaining knowledge of this area of the ICT specialism, to suggest enhancements or modernisation where and when applicable. The post holder(s) will also be required to stay informed of developments in other areas of technology which have a bearing on the provision of services for the Social Security Programme and Agency.
• Development and management of security tooling and services including, but not limited to, KMS, PKI, Encryption, secrets management, native cloud security tooling, Software composition analysis, Dynamic and Static security testing.
• Knowledge and ability to create improvement and development plans for existing infrastructure and providing roadmaps for future development work

Essential Skills & Experience:

Strong AWS
Terraform
Jenkins
Identity Access Management
secrets management -
Certificates

Desirable Skills:

Ansible Python
Hashicorp
KMS
GPG
PGP

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.