Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant

Job Title: Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant
Report To: Security Engineering Manager
Job Location: London (Within easy commutable distance)
Employment Status: Full Time (Must be able to obtain UK SC or above)
Salary: Competitive

Who is ControlPlane?

ControlPlane is a London headquartered consultancy specialising in cloud-native, Kubernetes, and open-source solutions. Our expertise lies in helping organisations adopt and secure complex cloud infrastructures by implementing security measures that are "secure-by-design" and "secure-by-default." This engineering excellence has driven ControlPlane deeper into cybersecurity providing services like threat modelling, penetration testing, and supply chain security to ensure robust protection against cyberattacks in containerised and cloud-native environments.

We are acclaimed for our contributions to securing highly regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and national infrastructure. We help businesses improve their security posture through services like DevSecOps consulting, zero-trust architectures, and platform engineering. ControlPlane also focuses on advancing best practices in the Kubernetes ecosystem, offering specialised training and community engagement.

Our clients range from multinational banks to tech giants and public clouds, where we assist with both security and operational needs. In addition to consulting, we are active in the open source community, supporting projects like Flux CD and providing security tools for Kubernetes environments.

Over the coming years you’ll see us retain our focus on solving difficult problems for clients with intense security controls using pragmatic, real world solutions. Taking our extensive R&D to help organisations consume next generation and open source projects safely and securely - that might be extending our work with FINOS AI Readiness or the overhaul of open source supply chain security.

 

What We're Looking For in a Principal Cloud Native Security Consultant

As a Principal level consultant you will represent the technical and cultural values of ControlPlane, leading our customers by example in the complex and fast-changing world of cloud native technology. You will assume end to end responsibilities across a mix of client consulting and internal projects

You will be comfortable leading engagements and defining end-to-end security architectures for cloud infrastructure, through a mixture of threat modelling and proof of concepts. You will also have insight into security operations and incident response for cloud environments, with experience of defining events, SOC integration & engineering and running table top exercises for incident response.

As a senior technologist we expect you to take a leading role in applying your expertise to helping our organisation with pre-sales engagements, defining best of breed security solutions for our clients and supporting business development activities.

We're looking for principal level skill sets. You should have strong knowledge of container and cloud security architecture principles, and you enjoy getting hands-on, experimenting with cloud infrastructure, and want to expand your horizons in this area. You value transparency and candid feedback, and are driven by a strong desire to become the best you can be.

ControlPlane thrives on community participation and collaboration through meetups and conferences, working groups, and training. We encourage our employees to be passionate about sharing information with friends and colleagues. 

Our ideal candidate:

• Is based in or within easy commuting distance of London
• Actively participates in the open source, security or DevOps community
• Is comfortable and experienced at presenting at user groups and conferences to represent ControlPlane
• Has experience of pre-sales/sales

You may be asked to:

• Actively participate to Special Interest Groups and Technical Advisory Groups with our business partners, collaborators, and friends
• Deliver Kubernetes Security and Kubernetes Threat Modelling training
• Attend conferences and meetups in the UK and abroad

Role, Responsibilities and Requirements of Our Principal Consultant

Experience or knowledge of some of the below:

• At least one of the following specialisms;
  • Experience of leading Threat Modelling engagements or designing Cloud Native security architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Security Operations and Incident Response experience within a cloud environment, including defining events, SOC engineering and running table top exercises
  • Experience of leading commercial penetration testing engagements ideally with an experience in cloud native penetration testing
• Consulting experience including managing engagements, running workshops and presenting to project security authorities.
• Kubernetes and container experience (some of EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, and container runtimes)
• DevSecOps principles and Engineering practices
• CI/CD experience, automating security tests and hardening pipelines
• Knowledge of security tooling
  • from enterprise tools such as Aqua, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig, Splunk and Logrythm.
  • to Open Source tools such as falco, kube-hunter, and kube-bench
• Knowledge and experience of hardening guides, compliance standards and MITRE ATT&CK and Adversary Tools, Techniques and Procedures. 
• Desirable:
  • Security related qualifications such as OSCP, Cloud Provider Security certifications, or CISSP
• A desire to learn, or experience with:
  • CLI tooling in any of the above technologies
  • Golang or Python
  • Vault, service mesh, in-toto, Tekton Chains, SPIFFE, and/or Sigstore
  • Terraform and cloud infrastructure best practices (IaC, regulated systems)

Benefits

ControlPlane is a dynamic, cutting edge and passionate business for which to work. Our employees are the heart of our business, which means we care about our company culture and our employees’ wellbeing and progression. Alongside this, as our colleague you will have the following benefits:

• Generous and competitive salary
• On target performance-based bonus
• 33 days of paid holiday, including paid leave for the standard 8 UK Bank Holidays
• Enrolment in the company's private medical insurance scheme
• £50 per month to spend on health and wellbeing
• Enhanced parental leave

An individual training budget for personal development, including but not limited to:

• Conferences
• Training (books, courses, coaching, as well as internal training which is of course included beyond budget)
• Qualifications

Individual development time:

• 10 days for training
• 7.5 days to attend and present at conferences
• 10 days company research and development time

We are looking for technical practitioners who can work with our clients and the team to deliver these projects and help establish ControlPlane as a world-class technical thought leader.

We believe our peers are equally as important as the technology we use. We're looking for people of the highest personal calibre, quietly confident, with a good work ethic, keenness to learn, emotional maturity and respect, who know that “we” is more than “me”, and who embrace human diversity of all kinds. As we grow you will help us to build a company culture of which we can all be proud. If you espouse these values, we want you!

NOTE FOR RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Please do not call or email our team speculatively; we do not accept unsolicited CVs. If you wish to partner with us please contact jobs at control-plane.io