Cloud Platform Security Engineer

Common

AI CIC is a non‑profit membership organisation, founded on a belief in collaborative engineering for the safe and responsible development of foundational AI technologies. A place where AI startups, enterprises large and small, public sector bodies and academia can share resources and knowledge, to codevelop and grow businesses, fast.

You will be responsible for ensuring that our platform is scalable, secure and resilient. We are looking for a security expert who can be responsible for security across our IT, software development and production environments.

We work with multiple cloud vendors so need someone with deep knowledge of platform security who can apply it across familiar and unfamiliar cloud environments. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Working with the Common
  
  AI software team to ensure our environment is secure by design
• Implementing security best practices across the company for all IT, development and production environments
• Working with customers to ensure that their use of our platform and services is secure

• A practical, hands on approach and ability to work across layers of the stack when needed
• Strong experience with cloud infrastructure and platform security on AWS and other hyperscalers
• Deep understanding of IAM & identity federation
• Networking expertise (VPC/VNet, subnets, routing, VPNs, private endpoints)
• Knowledge of compute orchestration (Kubernetes, VMs, serverless)
• Cloud cost optimisation and resource governance
• Programming experience for IaC in Python, Go, Bash or similar
• Ability to work with key customers to troubleshoot production problems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

• Experience working with AI workloads is a bonus
• We also value experience working with secure multi‑tenancy environments, HPC administration and working with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI‑DSS

During the hiring process we may ask you technical questions about any technologies or experience that you list on your CV. You will be expected to demonstrate use of coding to solve specific problems.

• A collaborative and supportive work environment
• The opportunity to have a high impact in a growing organisation
• Competitive salary package and pension
• Professional development opportunities
• Networking opportunities with influential people from across the tech sector and academia
• A vibrant office environment located a few minutes’ walk away from Cambridge train station