Cloud Security Engineer Leeds National Security West

Company: hackajob
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Location: Leeds
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hackajob is partnering directly with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence to hire for this role.

Location(s):UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Leeds

Grade: GG09-GG12

What Youll Be Doing

We are looking for talented and versatile Cloud Engineers to join our Engineering team, supporting and developing our innovative Security Operations Centre (SOC) capabilities.

Our people are what differentiate us. We value individuals who are resourceful, innovative, and dedicated to delivering exceptional outcomes. Our teams are built from a combination of specialists and generalists, and we recognise that this diversity of skills and experience drives our success. By bringing together different disciplines and perspectives, we create cutting-edge, high-quality solutions for our customers.

What background we are looking for:

  • Skilled in a range of AWS services and keen to keep up to date with the latest releases and best practices.
  • Experience with AWS security services and implementing cloud security best practices, including identity, monitoring, threat detection and data protection.
  • Understanding of Security Operations, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, threat detection, and SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk.
  • Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), least-privilege access principles, and privileged access controls.
  • Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
  • A desire to understand, support and develop our cutting-edge cloud activities focused on Security Operations. xwwtmva
  • Experience using Infrastructure as Code, for example Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Grafana or Prometheus.
  • Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or O

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Posted: September 23rd, 2026