At a Glance
- Tasks: Secure cloud infrastructure and automate security processes to protect user health data.
- Company: Join Flo, the world's #1 women's health app with a mission to empower female health.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work, generous leave policies, and professional growth opportunities.
- Other info: Dynamic team culture focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on millions of users' health while working with cutting-edge security tools.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in cloud security, expertise in AWS, and strong automation skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Flo is the world’s #1 health & fitness app on a mission to build a better future for female health. We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to join Velocity, our Internal Platform team. Your mission is to ensure that every system, pipeline, and tool our engineers rely on is secure by default.
The Velocity team exists to eliminate friction. We build and own the foundation everything else runs on: cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and SRE practices. You will:
- Embed Security Into the Platform: Bake security, compliance, and best practices into the core stack.
- Automate Everything: Drive security-as-code across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container lifecycles.
What You Will Do
- Cloud Security Posture: Own and continuously strengthen Flo's AWS security posture using tools like GuardDuty, Inspector, Security Hub, and SSM Patch Manager.
- Container & Supply Chain Security: Harden container image security end-to-end.
- Policy as Code: Manage CI/CD security across the organisation using policy-as-code tooling.
- Security Observability: Build visibility into security performance by measuring and visualising actionable metrics.
- High-Scale Privacy: Support the infrastructure for industry-leading privacy features.
- Culture & Thought Leadership: Shape Flo's broader security culture through proactive engagement.
What You Bring
- 7+ years in Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering roles.
- Deep expertise in AWS security services and best practices.
- Proficient in Terraform and Terragrunt.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes security, image hardening, and admission control.
- Solid understanding of identity management principles.
- Comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
- Understanding of modern network security principles.
- Experience building Secure Software Development Lifecycle phases into engineering workflows.
Bonus Points
- Experience with security monitoring and event correlation systems.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and its implementations.
- Familiarity with secret management processes and tools.
- Experience in multi-cloud environments.
- Understanding of business continuity principles.
- Professional accreditations such as AWS Security Specialty, CKS, or CISSP.
Why Join Flo?
- Your work directly protects the health data of millions.
- We hire experts and empower you to deliver.
- Work with modern security tooling deployed on real production infrastructure.
How we work
We’re a mission-led, product-driven team. We move fast, stay focused and take ownership. You'll be working with people who take their work seriously, not themselves.
What you'll get
- Competitive salary and annual reviews.
- Opportunity to participate in Flo’s performance incentive scheme.
- Paid holiday, sick leave, and female health leave.
- Enhanced parental leave and pay for all parents.
- Accelerated professional growth through world-changing work.
- 5-week fully paid sabbatical at 5-year Floversary.
- Diversity, equity and inclusion.
Senior/Lead Cloud Security Engineer employer: Femtech Insider Ltd.
Femtech Insider Ltd. is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture that prioritises innovation and quality in the pharmaceutical sector. Located in Cramlington, Northumberland, employees benefit from a supportive environment that fosters professional growth and development, alongside competitive remuneration and comprehensive benefits. Join us to be part of a team that values your expertise and encourages continuous improvement in a meaningful industry.
