Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Cathcart Technology
Ab326Uf, Alba / Scotland, AB32 6UF, United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Posted
8 May 2026 (3 weeks ago)

Benefits

Strong benefits package

ASenior Cloud Security Engineer is required to join an industry leading organisation in the energy sector, a genuinely global business with operations spanning multiple continents, thousands of employees.

This is apermanent, full-time role that is based in Aberdeen (hybrid but can be slightly flexible on location)

The opportunity

This is a great chance to join a well-established IT Security team at a point where there's real work to be done. With a broad cloud estate spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including a significant Azure and M365 footprint, cloud security here isn't a tick-box exercise. You'll have genuine scope to shape the direction of travel, the support of a capable team and managed service partners, and the backing of senior leadership who take security seriously.

What you'll be doing

You'll design and deploy cloud security solutions across the organisation's IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS estate, while helping develop and maintain security policies and procedures.

Day to day this means conducting assessments and audits, identifying risks, maintaining security controls within Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365, and playing an active role in incident response, including post-incident reviews and proposing engineering improvements.

You'll also support cloud security tooling and platforms, contribute to change management forums, and help mentor colleagues across the wider IT function, all while keeping a close eye on the evolving threat landscape and bringing proactive recommendations to the team.

You'll ideally have most of the following

** Extensive experience with cloud technologies, with Microsoft Azure being the priority

** A solid background in delivering Information Security in a modern digital environment

** Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and ideally Microsoft Purview

** Scripting capability in PowerShell

** Familiarity with frameworks including NIST CSF, ISO27001, and GDPR

** Security certifications such as CISSP or CISM (advantageous)

** Azure certifications such as AZ-500 or SC-300 (advantageous)

Don't worry if you don't tick every single box. If you have a strong security engineering background and genuine cloud experience, it's definitely worth a conversation.

Why this role?

The company is at an interesting point in its cloud security maturity. There's real work to be done, real problems to solve, and real scope to shape policy, tooling, and ways of working for the long term. This isn't a role where you'll be maintaining the status quo; you'll be actively contributing to how cloud security evolves across a major global organisation.

What's on offer

Acompetitive salary,strongbenefitspackage, andhybridworking inAberdeen (4 days in office - possibly someflexibilityonlocation). The chance to work in a senior, visible security engineering role within a business operating at real scale, and the opportunity to leave your mark on the cloud security strategy of a globally recognised organisation.

If this sounds like the kind of role you've been looking for,please apply or get in touch withMattMacAlpine at Cathcart Technology.

Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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