Anson McCade
Security Architect
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Security Architect
AWS Cloud Security Architect Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office) Salary: Up to £94,000 (depending on experience) + package
Eligibility Note: Due to the nature of this work, candidates must be eligible for UK Security Clearance.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Security Specialist with deep expertise in AWS to design, implement, and mature secure cloud environments across large-scale enterprise systems. This role sits at the centre of cloud transformation activity, ensuring security is embedded by design and enabling secure adoption of modern cloud-native capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design of secure cloud architectures and security patterns across AWS environments
- Embed security-by-design principles across cloud migration and cloud-native initiatives
- Conduct threat modelling and risk assessments for AWS-based solutions
- Define and implement security controls aligned to compliance and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with solution architects and engineering teams to integrate security into design and delivery
- Act as a technical escalation point for cloud security concerns across development teams
- Develop and maintain security standards, reusable patterns, and documentation
- Continuously improve cloud security posture through proactive assessment and remediation
- Support secure adoption of containerised and cloud-native workloads
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Technical Environment & Expertise
Strong Experience Required:
- Proven experience designing and securing AWS cloud environments within enterprise-scale organisations
- Strong understanding of:
- Cloud networking
- Identity and access management (IAM)
- Encryption
- Application security principles
- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation)
- Experience applying security controls in CI/CD and DevSecOps environments
- Experience with container security in cloud-native architectures
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Frameworks & Compliance:
- Working knowledge of security and risk frameworks: CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001
- Understanding of regulatory requirements such as GDPR and PCI DSS
- Ability to align technical controls with governance and compliance requirements
Requirements
- Recognised subject matter expert in AWS cloud security
- Strong background in cloud security architecture within complex enterprise environments
- Excellent communication skills for influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proactive approach to identifying security risks and improving posture
- Comfortable working in collaborative, multi-disciplinary engineering environments
- Continuous learner, staying current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and cloud security practices
- Experience mentoring or guiding other engineers is highly beneficial
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