Principal AWS Platform Engineer at Appvia guiding clients in cloud adoption and DevOps excellence. Leading teams and projects while fostering innovation in cloud technologies.
About the role
- Architect Secure Foundations: You help the platform team to own the security of our developer platform. This includes designing, building, and maintaining security controls and services within our CI/CD pipelines.
- Secure Our Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Partner with your Platform teammates to be the subject matter expert for securing our Terraform modules and cloud environments (AWS, Azure). You'll focus on preventing misconfigurations before they're deployed.
- Incident Response and Operations: Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including out-of-hours coverage to support platform availability and security. You will assist in troubleshooting critical issues, lead the response for security-specific incidents.
- Build a Secure "Paved Road": Seamlessly integrate and orchestrate security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning) into developer workflows.
- Enable Vulnerability Remediation: Develop tools and processes to help engineering teams triage, prioritise, and remediate vulnerabilities.
Requirements
- A "Builder" Mindset: You have strong coding and scripting skills (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node) and a passion for automating *everything*.
- Cloud & Infrastructure Experience: You have experience building and securing modern cloud-native infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines (like GitHub Actions), cloud environments (AWS/Azure), and Infrastructure as Code (like Terraform).
- Application Security Knowledge: You have a solid understanding of the AppSec landscape and practical experience integrating tools (SAST, DAST, SCA) into developer workflows.
- A Collaborative Partner: You have excellent communication skills. You enjoy collaborating with engineering teams and translating complex security concepts into clear guidance.
- Observability-Driven: You have experience using security and monitoring platforms (like Datadog) to detect and respond to threats.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday, plus 5 additional days off: 1 life event day, 2 volunteer days, 2 company-wide wellbeing days (M-Powered Weekend) and 8 bank holidays per year
- private medical Insurance with Bupa, a medical cashback scheme, life insurance, gym membership & wellness resources through Wellhub and access to Spill - all in one mental health support
- we collaborate in the office 3 days per week
- you'll have the opportunity to work from anywhere, up to 10 days per year
- weekly socials, company wide events and office snacks!
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