Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Glasgow – hybrid working

Salary: From £61-77K (up to 15% Performance Bonus + Healthcare + On-Call Allowance)

Permanent, Full Time

Help us create a better future, quicker

Join ScottishPower as a subject matter expert in Cloud Infrastructure Security, helping us adopt cloud solutions securely in line with the Iberdrola Group Cloud strategy. You'll provide advice on designing, developing, and implementing services, platforms, and solutions for our businesses, focusing on AWS and Azure.

What you’ll be doing

Your role ensures we meet business needs on time without compromising security. When expectations are unrealistic, you'll propose secure, standards-based alternatives. Work with local and global teams to plan the evolution and improvement of ScottishPower’s cloud environments, ensuring our corporate systems are securely managed.

You'll focus on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and services, ensuring compliance with Iberdrola Group's policies and regulations, as well as industry standards. This includes defining and implementing controls and metrics to ensure proper implementation and compliance.

As a Cloud Security Engineer, you'll enforce standards, reviewing and approving cloud solution designs, managing supplier relationships, providing technical consultancy, and overseeing change management. This role will be key to maintaining a strong security posture for ScottishPower’s landing zones, coordinating responses to SecOps notifications, and producing monthly security-related MI stats.

You'll provide technical input for project estimation, supporting procurement activities, and offering technical leadership with the Digital Transformation. Be an ambassador for Digital Transformation, self-driven, accountable, and empathetic to the needs of the ScottishPower business.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for skills in Kubernetes security, AI security, serverless architectures, cost optimization, secure CI/CD pipeline implementation, and security and observability tools for both AWS and Azure. You’ll have experience of influencing stakeholders, networking with peers and suppliers. 

You’ll have good experience collaborating with stakeholders, managers, technical staff, account managers, consultants, and outsourced partners.

Useful experience includes: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, and Azure Security Engineer Associate.

We’re looking for Cloud Security knowledge of AWS and/or Azure technologies, experience working across multiple projects, good communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that -  so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave

• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes

• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments

• Life Assurance (4x salary)

• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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