Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £90,000 to £125,000.
AWS is the centre of it, with Google Cloud and Azure alongside. Builds landing zones and reference architectures, writes the Terraform modules other teams consume, and wires SAST, SCA, container and IaC scanning into CI/CD so security is in the pipeline rather than in a report. Also does the unglamorous parts properly, GuardDuty, Config, CloudTrail, WAF and EKS hardening, plus FinOps work on savings plans and rightsizing.
Looking forLeft a role where the agreed 2 days a week in the office became an expected 4, with a 110-mile commute attached. Wants a hybrid arrangement that is real and closer to Northampton, and made the point that what matters is agreed terms being honoured.
How they came acrossRaised the working pattern problem internally for 6 months before giving up on it, which says something about how they handle friction. Straightforward and technically specific when asked.
AWS, Terraform, Python, GitHub Actions · Kubernetes, EKS, container security · GuardDuty, AWS Config, WAF, CloudTrail, SIEM
IT and cloud engineering at several managed service providers, then senior DevSecOps at a national gas distribution business, then security engineering at a global motorsport organisation. 7 employers, average stint 1 year 1 month.
Location is the whole story. Anything that turns into 4 days a week far from Northampton will end the same way it did last time. The short average tenure is worth asking about too.
Degree in computer networks.
Led a team of 6 inside the group security function of an international telecoms and media group, 4 cloud security engineers and 2 application security engineers. Pre-deployment security reviews, CSPM tooling, and application scanning with Checkmarx across a multi-cloud estate on GKE and EKS. Policy-as-code, zero trust architecture and privileged access work sit underneath, with Terraform and GitHub Actions doing the delivery.
Looking forTook voluntary redundancy in January 2026 when a fully remote arrangement became 4 days a week in London, which doesn't work from Nottingham. Wants remote or near-remote at a level that matches the seniority they already had.
How they came acrossBuilt and has been running their own cloud learning platform since leaving, which is a reasonable answer to what someone does with an unplanned gap. Clear-eyed about what they will and won't commute to.
GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Python · GKE, EKS, Binary Authorization, container scanning · Checkmarx, Snyk, Rapid7 InsightCloudSec, HashiCorp Vault
A long run at an international telecoms and media group, moving from principal cloud security engineer into a consulting practice. 2 employers, average stint 1 year 10 months, though the career runs longer than that suggests.
Out of permanent work since January 2026 and firm that a London office requirement is a no. A Nottingham base or genuine remote is the only shape that works.
Studied computer engineering. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS Security Specialty and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
Three people cover global security and cloud infrastructure at a distributed database company now owned by a technology giant of more than 250,000 staff, and this is one of them. Perimeter security with Nginx and ModSecurity, multi-cloud across AWS, GCP and Azure, Kubernetes with Cilium network policies and admission control, IAM and RBAC, incident response, and ownership of a security product. Platform engineering before that at a GitOps tooling company and a global custody bank.
Looking forThe acquisition changed the product direction in a way that turned out less interesting than expected. Wants technically stimulating work and keeps remote flexibility, having worked fully remote since 2019.
How they came acrossCame into engineering sideways after a first career in retail management, which shows up as a practical streak rather than a theoretical one. Reacted well to a concrete brief and salary conversation rather than needing to be sold.
Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi, Ansible · Kubernetes, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Flux, Helm · AWS, GCP, Azure, Vault, OPA/Gatekeeper, Trivy
Platform and DevOps engineering at a global custody bank, a fashion resale marketplace, an IoT data business and a GitOps tooling company, then cloud security at a distributed database company. 10 employers, average stint 1 year 10 months, with a first career in retail management before any of it.
3 months notice, and the career shows 10 employers at under 2 years each. Worth asking what would make the next one different.
Studied information systems and management. CKA and 4 AWS certifications.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank