Cloud Security and Platform Engineer in Manchester

RealityMine has been a pioneer in delivering data driven insights to the world's largest brands for over a decade. Our platform provides unique data solutions to our clients enabling them to make strategic, informed decisions powered by data from real people, collected in a privacy safe way.

As we continue to expand, we’re seeking a Cloud Security and Platform Engineer who will play a key role in our engineering team, working on our underlying infrastructure that supports our applications and business.

The Role: RealityMine is seeking a Cloud Security and Platform Engineer to play a key role in strengthening security, governance, and assurance across our cloud and SaaS environments. This is a security focused role, centred on improving posture, visibility, and confidence in how our platforms are used, while enabling engineering teams to move quickly and safely rather than imposing unnecessary barriers. This role is mainly focused on AWS, with growing involvement in other cloud and SaaS platforms.

You’ll improve existing environments—managing identity and access, governance, security, observability, and lifecycle—by reducing risks, eliminating unsafe configurations, validating ownership, and ensuring the cloud estate is clearly governed and auditable. You will take an active role in improving RealityMine’s security posture by improving and operating security scanning, improving monitoring and observability, and ensuring risks, vulnerabilities, and end of life components are identified and addressed in a timely and pragmatic way. You will also develop automation used to support security and operational hygiene, reducing manual effort and helping teams adopt consistent and repeatable ways of working.

This role also spans SaaS and productivity tooling, including contributing to Microsoft 365 security best practice and broader SaaS security governance. You will support audit activity, ISO 27001 compliance efforts, and responses to security reviews, translating requirements into practical improvements rather than box ticking exercises. You will work closely with engineering teams under the guidance of the Operations Team Lead. A key part of the role is fostering a positive security culture: helping teams understand risk, embedding secure defaults, and enabling product delivery while maintaining a strong and proportionate security posture as the platform continues to evolve.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding requirements and acceptance criteria
• Proactively surfacing improvement plans for quality, security and performance
• Monitoring and improving security posture across infrastructure, custom applications and SaaS services
• Interpreting software development specifications and design documents
• Writing application code and tests that conform to standards
• Producing work that is of high quality and adheres to our company standards.
• Working alongside data engineering, testing, user experience and other roles
• Adhering to Company Policies and Procedures with respect to Security, Quality and Health & Safety.

About You: We value adaptability and a proactive mindset. From time to time, you may be asked to tackle new technologies, unfamiliar projects, or collaborate with different teams across the business. After a suitable induction period, you will also join our out of hours on call team, for which you will receive additional compensation. At RealityMine, our culture is built on innovation, self-motivation, support, and open communication, and we expect you to demonstrate these values not only through technical expertise, but also through how you collaborate, influence, and support others.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience with AWS best practice configuration for performance and security
• Experience improving cloud security posture
• Experience with cloud governance and hygiene
• Ability to identify and manage security risk
• Understanding of information security, ISO 27001, and other processes and policies
• Knowledge of coding standards
• Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity and quality
• Experience working with security tooling such as SIEMs, SAST analysers, vulnerability scanners
• Ability to enable teams through a pragmatic approach to security
• Development experience with Python, Terraform and CloudFormation
• Experience with AI Tooling and Governance

Preferred:

• Experience with migrating from legacy AWS services
• Experience of other clouds, e.g. Azure, GCP
• Experience with working with Puppet and/or Puppet Bolt
• Experience with Serverless technologies on AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS etc)
• Experience with Terraform

Why Join RealityMine? At RealityMine, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we go the extra mile to support every team member to unlock their full potential. Whether you're hungry for learning, driven by achievement, or just love being part of a dynamic and supportive team, you’ll find a home here.

Your Benefits:

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 25 days of paid holiday, plus bank holidays. After two years with us, you can also buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave.
• Peace of Mind: Life assurance and a workplace pension with employer contributions.
• Reward for Performance: Bonus scheme that recognizes your hard work and contributions.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: For the cyclists among us, we've got you covered.
• Gear You’ll Love: Choose the tech that works for you, we’ll try and source it!
• Learning & Growth: Benefit from one-to-one coaching, a budget for training programs, and all the support you need to keep growing.
• Giving Back: Join us in supporting local charities and making a positive impact.

Hybrid Working: We know work-life balance matters, so we’ve embraced a flexible hybrid working model:

• Located in Trafford Park, our Manchester office offers an inspiring, collaborative space to work alongside your colleagues.
• Free parking and secure bike shed. Excellent public transport links.
• Split your time between the office and home, with 2 days working in our offices.
• Full equipment provided for home working (desk, screen, chair).
• Receive £100 annually to personalise your home workspace.
• Flexible start and finish times to suit your personal circumstances.

If you’re a Cloud Security and Platform Engineer professional excited to work on impactful projects and shape the future of data insights, we’d love to hear from you.