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The Engine technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.\nOur technologists are at the very heart of Engine and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!\nThe way to thrive and shine within Engine is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, and discovering to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.\nHybrid Working\nWe have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.\nAbout Engineering at Engine by Starling -https://enginebystarling.com/careers/engineering/\nAs a Security Engineer at Engine, you'll be working on helping to keep our infrastructure secure and compliant and our staff safe and productive. You'll be working on projects covering identity and access management, cloud and network security, vulnerability management, security monitoring, security hardening, compliance reviews, and more. It's a very varied role with lots of close interaction with the infrastructure, security engineering, cross-cutting and compliance teams.\nWe are looking for an experienced Senior level GCP Security Engineer to join our established Security Engineering team, working closely with Information Security, Infrastructure and the various Engine Technology teams to make sure security is at the heart of all our technical processes. As our subject matter expert, you will take ownership of engineering the security foundations of our Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on role for a specialist with a proven track record of designing, building, and automating security controls specifically for GCP, including hardened GKE clusters.\nEngine by Starling engineers are excited about helping us deliver new features, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest Blog or our case studies with Women in Tech.\nAs a GCP Security Engineer, you will:\nCollaborate with stakeholders to define our Google Cloud security architecture (cloud identity, runtime security, security posture)\nDesign, document, build and maintain a secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP using Infrastructure as Code\nBe part of the team responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication and authorisation mechanisms are in place\nEngineer and automate technical controls within GCP to ensure and demonstrate continuous compliance with stringent standards such as PCI DSS and 3DS\nDrive security infrastructure deployments across our growing environments\nPerform regular security assessments, audits, threat modelling and architecture design reviews to identify risks and vulnerabilities, triage found risks, identify improvements appropriately and design controls to implement as corrective actions\nLead incident response efforts, including investigation and remediation of security breaches\nSupport our internal security awareness and training programs, advocating the DevSecOps mindset that we have created across our technology teams\nRequirements\nWe're open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications. If you have an innate passion for security and care enough to find elegant solutions to difficult problems, we'd love to hear from you.\nWhat skills are essential:\nMature understanding of cloud security architecture, with deep expertise in GCP and a proven track record\nExperience creating a GCP landing zone, configuring services such as organisation policies and VPC Service Controls\nA deep understanding of GCP IAM and its limitations\nExperience with service-oriented architecture using containers, distributed systems and immutable infrastructure on GCP (including GKE, Compute Engine, Shared VPC and Cloud SQL)\nExpertise in Kubernetes, securing clusters (GKE) and meshes (Cilium is preferable), networking best practices and RBAC implementation (CKA, CKS qualifications are a plus)\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure provisioning tools, particularly Terraform\nExperience configuring GCP-native security posture and threat management with Security Command Center\nExperience securing the software supply chain with Binary Authorization, Artifact Registry and Artifact Analysis\nExperience with key and secret management on GCP - Cloud KMS, Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) and Secret Manager - including cryptographic key ceremonies\nExperience with Workload Identity and Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication of workloads and CI/CD\nExperience configuring and utilising cloud-native security logging, monitoring and detection services\nStrong programming skills - in security we write our own scripts for automation in Python, Go and other languages while contributing to open-source tools so we can utilise them\nIn-depth knowledge of security principles, technologies, best practices, and threat detection and mitigation strategies\nKnowledge of common attack vectors and methodologies (OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK Framework and social engineering tactics)\nThe ability to identify potential threats, attack vectors and vulnerabilities in systems and applications\nThe ability to document security requirements from various stakeholders\nExcellent problem-solving, communication and active listening skills with an innate passion for security\nThe ability to identify security gaps and create solutions to minimise risk and impact to us\nA proactive approach to staying updated with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques\nThorough understanding of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned)\nWhat skills are desirable:\nIn-depth knowledge of network security, including core routing and switching concepts (TCP/IP, BGP, VPNs), security controls (firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS), and practical experience designing hybrid connectivity between GCP and on-premise environments\nExperience with data-residency and regulated-workload controls such as Assured Workloads and Access Transparency, relevant to deploying per-market for different banks' regulators\nHands-on experience taking a company through security and compliance frameworks like NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS\nExperience automating security controls and compliance checks against standards and frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS / 3DS\nContainer security knowledge including container image provenance (e.g. Sigstore, Notary) with an in-depth knowledge of container runtimes, and an understanding of integrating security into the software development lifecycle\nExperience performing secure code reviews and security approvals, including the use of static and dynamic application security testing (SAST / DAST) tools\nExperience in cryptography management and enhancements\nRelevant security certifications such as ISC2 CC, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer\nThe main part of our tech stack is listed below. We don't ask that you have experience in all of it, but if you do, that's great!\nJava, which makes up the majority of our backend codebase\nGCP and AWS - we're cloud-native\nMicroservice-based architecture\nKubernetes (GKE on GCP, EKS on AWS)\nTeamCity for CI/CD (with multiple production releases per day)\nTerraform and Grafana\nRDS and CloudSQL for PostgreSQL\nOur Interview Process:\nInterviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:\nInitial interview with an Engineer - ~45 minutes\nTake-home technical test, to be discussed in the next interview\nTechnical interview with some Engineers - ~1.5 hours\nFinal interview with our CTO / deputy CTO - ~45 minutes\nBenefits\n33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)\nAn extra day’s holiday for your birthday\nAnnual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off\n16 hours paid volunteering time a year\nSalary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme\nLife insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection\nPrivate Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton\nGenerous family-friendly policies\nIncentives refer a friend scheme\nPerkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks\nAccess to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing\nAbout Us\nYou may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.\nEngine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.\nWhen you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling Bank will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. 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