Job Title: Cloud Native Engineer (AWS Secrets Manager)           

Report To: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Remote (right to work in UK or EU required)     

Employment Status: Full Time

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 Cloud Native Engineer (AWS Secrets Manager)

We are looking for cloud native engineers and consultants at all levels to 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 perform a mix of client consulting, working on internal labs projects, and contributing to Open Source projects on ControlPlane’s behalf.

This is a unique job role within a successful start-up company where you will have the chance to make a positive impact, learn, grow and work with great colleagues who consistently challenge the status quo.

This is a remote position, but we invite you to spend time in person at our London office: this is optional and we aim to be entirely flexible to your needs. You may be expected to work on a client site for a few days a month. As a leader in the cloud native community there are opportunities for international travel.

As part of the engineering team we may ask you to be involved in pre-sales or business development activities to support the ongoing growth of our organisation.

Role, Responsibilities and Requirements of Our Cloud Native Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Manage Secrets Across Cloud Platforms: Leverage your knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager and Google Secrets Manager to ensure secure and efficient management of sensitive data across cloud environments.
• Design and Develop Cloud Infrastructure: Use Terraform to automate, manage, and provision cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency in line with modern engineering practices.
• Develop Cloud-Native Applications: Write high-quality code in Go to build, maintain, and enhance cloud-native systems, ensuring they are robust, secure, and scalable.
• Lead Infrastructure and Security Projects: Define and implement cloud infrastructure projects with a focus on security improvements, ensuring adherence to best practices in cloud architecture and security.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve Issues: Take ownership of complex technical challenges, resolving issues in both development and production environments with a hands-on, problem-solving mindset.

What you'll bring 

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud, including knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager and Google Secrets Manager.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Expertise with Terraform to automate, manage, and provision cloud infrastructure.
• Programming Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Go for developing and managing cloud-native applications.
• Modern Engineering Practices: Deep understanding of cloud-native engineering techniques, including containerization, serverless architectures, and DevOps practices.
• Collaboration & Change Management: Strong communication skills and the ability to lead initiatives, set up meetings, and drive change across teams and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on Problem Solving: A passion for experimentation, working hands-on with cloud infrastructure, and delivering practical, innovative solutions.
• CI/CD Best Practices: Familiarity with continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation tools (Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins).
• Security Awareness: Knowledge of cloud security principles and experience designing hardened, compliant systems.
• GitOps Experience: Understanding of GitOps practices and deployment pipelines.
• Security Tooling Experience: Familiarity with tools like AquaSec, Prisma, or Falco for cloud security scanning.
• Soft Skills for Consulting: Ability to work with clients, manage processes, and adapt to highly regulated environments.

Essential skills:

• Demonstrable experience with cloud Secrets Management tools (AWS Secrets Manager, Google Cloud Secret Manager, Vault, etc. )
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes using GKE, EKS or OpenShift
• Experience with one or more cloud providers and Infrastructure as Code tools and practices
• Understanding of CI/CD best practices and a range of build tools
• Cloud security awareness and a desire to build hardened 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
• Discretionary 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