Principal Cyber Security Engineer - Cloud Security

Are you a Principal Cloud focused Cyber Engineer? Do you want to play a vital role in ensuring the security and integrity of one of the worlds leading MMO's?

Jagex have an exciting opportunity for a experienced Security Engineer. Your primary focus will be on developing and enhancing the security posture of our cloud based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

This role offers a huge amount of scope and a chance to put your stamp on the cloud security function at Jagex.

What you'll be doing:

Security Architecture & Design:

• Design and implement robust security controls to safeguard infrastructure, applications, and data.
• Spearhead the design, implementation, and continuous monitoring of security measures and best practices for AWS and Azure environments.
• Develop, document, and maintain security processes, incident response plans, and disaster recovery strategies.

Cloud Security & Management:

• Ensure the optimal use of AWS and Azure security tools and services to enhance the security posture of the infrastructure.
• Monitor and analyze security events on cloud platforms (AWS and Azure), ensuring timely detection and response to potential threats.
• Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle (DevSecOps) from inception to deployment.

What you'll need:

• Substantial experience within the cyber security domain, particularly with cloud security operations in federated enterprises.
• Strong collaboration, and conflict-resolution skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to lead and perform infrastructure threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and provide security recommendations that balance functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience with AWS services, containers, orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud-native security tools such as AWS Security Hub and Azure Security Center.
• Familiarity with automated security processes such as CI/CD pipeline security, infrastructure-as-code security, and automated patch management.
• Cloud security certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), CISSP or equivalent.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you’ll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you’ll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together – with each other and with us – inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game’s evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they’re playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry’s most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you. Worried you don’t meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.