Cloud Engineer
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£85 Per hour
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Summary: The Senior Cloud Native AI Security Engineer role is a technical position focused on designing, building, and scaling cloud-native security platforms to address AI-driven threats. The engineer will work with high-performance distributed systems and microservices in a remote setting. Responsibilities include developing secure infrastructure and collaborating with engineering teams to implement best practices. The position requires extensive experience in software engineering and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and build highly scalable cloud-native services capable of processing large-scale real-time security workloads
- Design and develop microservices, reusable frameworks, and platform components used across multiple engineering teams
- Build secure, reliable, and performant distributed systems operating at enterprise scale
- Develop automated testing strategies focused on reliability, scalability, and security validation
- Integrate services across complex internal platforms, APIs, and distributed cloud environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks and production issues across cloud-native systems
- Drive continuous improvements across observability, monitoring, automation, and system resilience
- Collaborate with engineering teams to establish cloud-native development and testing best practices
- Mentor engineers around secure coding, scalability, distributed systems, and operational excellence
Key Skills:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-grade platforms or products
- Strong background designing and deploying microservices in cloud-native environments
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, performance engineering, and cloud architectures
- Strong development experience in Go, Python, or Java
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration technologies
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across complex distributed systems
- Experience with APIs and service communication technologies such as REST, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
- Solid understanding of databases and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL and Redis
- Experience building cybersecurity or threat detection platforms (nice to have)
- Exposure to AI/ML security challenges and AI-driven security tooling (nice to have)
- Experience with Kafka, Pulsar, Splunk, or real-time streaming systems (nice to have)
- Golang expertise (nice to have)
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or internal developer platforms (nice to have)
- Knowledge of Microsoft Copilot ecosystem or AI agent frameworks (nice to have)
- Experience building highly scalable cloud-native services on AWS (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): £85 per hour
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Cloud Native AI Security Engineer | Remote | 12 month contract | £85 p/h | Inside IR35
We're looking for a highly experienced Senior Cloud Native AI Security Engineer to help design, build, and scale next-generation cloud-native security platforms used to detect and respond to emerging AI-driven threats at enterprise scale.
This is a deeply technical engineering role focused on building high-performance distributed systems, scalable microservices, and secure cloud-native infrastructure capable of handling massive real-time workloads across modern cloud environments.
You'll work alongside world-class engineering teams to deliver resilient, highly available services while driving best practices across security, automation, scalability, and operational excellence.
What You'll Be Doing
- Architect and build highly scalable cloud-native services capable of processing large-scale real-time security workloads
- Design and develop microservices, reusable frameworks, and platform components used across multiple engineering teams
- Build secure, reliable, and performant distributed systems operating at enterprise scale
- Develop automated testing strategies focused on reliability, scalability, and security validation
- Integrate services across complex internal platforms, APIs, and distributed cloud environments
- Troubleshoot and resolve performance bottlenecks and production issues across cloud-native systems
- Drive continuous improvements across observability, monitoring, automation, and system resilience
- Collaborate with engineering teams to establish cloud-native development and testing best practices
- Mentor engineers around secure coding, scalability, distributed systems, and operational excellence
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise-grade platforms or products
- Strong background designing and deploying microservices in cloud-native environments
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, performance engineering, and cloud architectures
- Strong development experience in Go, Python, or Java
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration technologies
- Experience deploying and operating services on AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across complex distributed systems
- Experience with APIs and service communication technologies such as REST, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
- Solid understanding of databases and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL and Redis
Nice to Have
- Experience building cybersecurity or threat detection platforms
- Exposure to AI/ML security challenges and AI-driven security tooling
- Experience with Kafka, Pulsar, Splunk, or real-time streaming systems
- Golang expertise
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or internal developer platforms
- Knowledge of Microsoft Copilot ecosystem or AI agent frameworks
- Experience building highly scalable cloud-native services on AWS
This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI security technologies, solving large-scale engineering challenges in a fast-moving cloud-native environment.
If this sounds like a fit, APPLY NOW!
Senior Cloud Native AI Security Engineer | Remote | 12 month contract | £85 p/h | Inside IR35
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