Thought Machine

Fintech

CloudSecurityEngineer

Lisbon, Portugal FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Cloud Security Engineer at Thought Machine. Skills: Cloud security, Security engineering, Automation, Threat modelling. Provide security expertise and mentorship. Co-develop threat models”

Industry & Context.

Fintech
Problems you'll solve

Find the best solutions to complex problems

Eligibility Requirements

Four days a week onsite in Lisbon office

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Building and deploying containerised applications in public cloud using CI/CD frameworks, Infrastructure automation, Cloud networking architecture, Cloud operations, Security, Automation, Orchestration, Performing security threat modelling, Design reviews, Security in distributed systems, Security practices with containers, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Modern programming languages, Coding experience in creation, automation, and integration of security tools, Version control systems, Git, Designing, developing, and maintaining security in public cloud environments, AWS, GCP, Interpersonal skills, Communication skills

Nice to Have

Building and operating distributed systems at scale, Well-architected cloud security frameworks, CSA-CCM, Contributions to the security community, Web application penetration testing, Security tooling, Developing tools and interacting with cloud provider APIs

What You'll Do.

Provide security expertise and mentorship

Co-develop threat models

Design and build cloud native controls

Build and maintain automation

Develop security tooling

Work with cloud engineering teams

Perform security reviews

Contribute to security strategy

Operate collaboratively with teams

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Provide security expertise and mentorship to Thought Machine engineering teams; Co-develop threat models with engineering teams; Work with cloud engineering and operations teams; Operate collaboratively with other Thought Machine teams with trust and influence

Communication Scope

Interpersonal skills; Communication skills

Full Job Description

Thought Machine's mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world's banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking through core and payments technology which run natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology. We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and our newly established Engineering Hub in Lisbon. We have raised more than £500m in funding and our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investments, Standard Chartered Ventures, and more. We have created a culture that enables our team to produce the best work in the industry while ensuring we have fun along the way. We're regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the industry's most generous employee share package. Named one of the world's most innovative fintechs by Global Finance Magazine, we were also recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years—and a UK Best Employer for 2026. This is a full-time, permanent position based in our Lisbon office, requiring four days a week onsite. A Cloud Security Engineer is a contributor to the larger Security Engineering team. We desire engineers who are able to think creatively engineer, design, and build solutions to security problems. We have a passion for exploration of unique solutions and sharing of unique perspectives that you can bring to the team and its work. The Security Engineering team is cross-functional and made up of diverse people who bring their own unique expertise in either (or both) application security and infrastructure (cloud) security. We allow tea

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