Security Platform Engineer at RiverSafe, United Kingdom, £Contract Rate

The Role

• Provide strategic guidance for secure adoption of SaaS & PaaS platforms across Microsoft, Google, Atlassian and MongoDB Atlas
• Deliver technical consulting to identify misconfigurations and reduce platform risk
• Support secure design and integration across business programmes, including access and configuration reviews
• Contribute to platform security standards, policies, and best practices
• Support integration of security into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)

Skills

• Solid understanding of Identity and Access security, including but not limited to least privilege, zero trust, authentication, authorisation, SSO, JWT, RBAC/ABAC/PBAC, SAST, DAST
• Solid understanding of security principles and architecture, particularly for databases and APIs
• Understanding of Platform & Configuration Security, and Platform Monitoring, Response and Governance
• Scripting (Python, Bash) for task automation Terraform
• Understanding of security threats like DDoS, brute force, exfiltration, spoofing, and other relevant threats