NSL – Cloud Security Specialist

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

As an AWS Cloud Security Architect you will be working with our teams and customers to use your cybersecurity expertise and knowledge of AWS to implement secure cloud environments. You will be responsible for taking legal and regulatory requirements, combining these with industry best practice, and applying these to AWS workloads and tooling. This is a key role working closely with the customer and their cyber security specialists to enact a large-scale cloud migration journey, as well as working on new cloud native projects. We are looking for someone that is solution focused, who embeds security by design, and can ensure security is an enabler. It’s an amazing time to join our team to help shape our customer’s exciting cloud adoption journey. Not only will your team be directly making a huge impact upon the systems you work on, you’ll be doing it for an organisation who makes a huge impact to the security of the UK.

Core Duties

• Lead on developing secure architectures, patterns and processes that support a wide range of AWS services.
• Working closely with solution architects and cyber security specialists; often translating concerns and requirements into a cohesive whole.
• Apply security requirements to AWS architectures and services.
• Ensure the cloud-based solutions meet legal and regulatory compliance.
• Perform threat modelling and risk assessments of solutions built on AWS.
• Develop the culture of security by design.
• Design and support with implementing security controls to validate compliance and prevent non‑compliance.
• Work with the community of development teams to provide consultancy and guidance on secure cloud development as well as being an escalation point for security concerns.
• Seek opportunities to improve the security posture.
• Ensure security practices are accessible to all through documentation, reusable constructs and communicating these.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

• You are regarded as a subject matter expert on AWS Cloud Security.
• Proven experience in AWS cloud security architecture and design in enterprise environments at scale.
• A deep understanding of general Cyber Security principles (e.g. encryption, secure network design, application attack vectors).
• Practical knowledge of industry standard security frameworks such as CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark, NIST, ISO 27001, and regulatory requirements (GDPR, PCI‑DSS).
• A concrete understanding of core AWS principles (e.g. networking and IAM) with knowledge of security details across a range of AWS services.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS‑native security tools (e.g. IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Macie, WAF).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• You are curious and have a desire to continuously learn, being up to date with the latest threats and best practices.

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these:

• Industry certifications such as AWS Certified Cloud Security Speciality or CISSP.
• Experience of securing container workloads.
• Mentoring junior engineers and nurturing their passion for engineering.

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

How we will support you

Work‑life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part‑time working. As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office. You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before. Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more. You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE. You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme. You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.

About our team

Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting‑edge, high‑quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients. You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work‑life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team. We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA.

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Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well‑being. Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.