Contract Cloud Security Operations Engineer (Quant Trading, Inside IR35)
Posted 1 week ago by Xcede
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: This role is for a Cloud Security Operations Engineer focused on AWS within a leading Quant Trading firm, requiring operational management of cloud security activities. The position involves monitoring alerts, ensuring compliance, and maintaining the security posture of AWS environments. The engineer will also design custom alerting rules and manage IAM access requests. This contract role is classified as inside IR35 and operates in a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage BAU cloud security activities and respond to business and infrastructure requests.
- Monitor alerts and ensure continuous compliance across AWS environments.
- Maintain the overall health of the cloud security posture using CSPM tooling.
- Design, implement, and refine custom alerting rules and detection logic.
- Fulfil and review IAM access requests according to least-privilege principles.
- Review and approve security-related change requests impacting AWS environments.
Key Skills:
- Practical experience operating and supporting AWS cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of AWS IAM, roles, policies, and access control models.
- Experience monitoring and responding to alerts from AWS security services.
- Familiarity with cloud security posture management and vulnerability management practices.
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty is ideal.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Cloud Security Operations Engineer - Quant Trading (Inside IR35, Hybrid): This is a unique opportunity for an experienced AWS-focused Cloud Security OPerations Engineer to join a leading Quant Trading firm on a contract/interim basis. The Cloud Security function, supports the secure day-to-day operation of the AWS cloud environments. This role is operationally focused, managing BAU cloud security activities, responding to business and infrastructure requests, monitoring alerts, and ensuring continuous compliance across the AWS estate. The role is effectively a DevSecOps role, the incoming Cloud Security Operations Engineer will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the overall health of the cloud security posture across AWS environments, leveraging industry-standard CSPM tooling and related platforms to identify risk trends, control gaps, and configuration drift. You will design, implement, and continuously refine custom alerting rules and detection logic to enable effective threat detection and response across cloud workloads. Fulfil and review IAM access requests in accordance with least-privilege principles. Review and approve security-related change requests impacting AWS environments. Requirements: Practical experience operating and supporting AWS cloud environments. Working knowledge of AWS IAM, roles, policies, and access control models. Experience monitoring and responding to alerts from AWS security services. Familiarity with cloud security posture management and vulnerability management practices. Ideally you will have your AWS Certified Security – Specialty