Security Engineering Lead - Cloud and Resilience

Kraken · London

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Position Summary

This is a high-impact technical leadership position bridging cloud security engineering with resilient, disaster-recovery-focused architecture. You will serve as the central bridge orchestrating Cloud security, Resilience and Disaster Recovery strategy across our core Platform and Infrastructure Resilience teams. Your mission is to ensure our entire ecosystem remains secure, continuously available, and ready to rapidly recover from sophisticated cyber incidents and catastrophic technical disruptions.

What You'll Do:

Team Leadership & Strategy

Manage and mentor a functional security engineering team (4-6 engineers), fostering a culture of open communication and inclusion.
Set cloud security and resilience objectives and metrics and work within and across the teams to develop solutions to achieve them.

Cross-Functional Resilience

Act as the primary lead for disaster recovery program orchestration, aligning Platform, Infrastructure, and Engineering squads.
Influence engineering teams to embed security and "design-for-failure" patterns into platform and application lifecycles and coordinate continuous resilience testing.
Align strategies and operations for a “secure-by-default” strategy from the perspective of overall technical resiliency.

Technical Security & Incident Command

Lead hands-on development of internal security tooling and provide architectural guidance to improve platform and application security across Kraken products and environments.
Convert security root-cause analyses into actionable engineering tasks that satisfy global compliance mandates.

What You'll Bring:

Proven leadership experience in security engineering and/or large-scale technical program orchestration across global teams.
Deep expertise in cloud security best practices (specifically AWS), incident management, and resilience engineering.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse technical teams and translate complex risks for executive leadership.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, and threat modeling frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

Security pay context

Based on 1,638 disclosed Security salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $142K/year, with most offers between $114K and $179K (10th–90th percentile: $92K–$215K).

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