Cloud Security Engineer, Amersfoort

Voor onze eindklant KPN is Harvey Nash op zoek naar een Cloud Security Engineer

Start: 15-05-2026

Eind: 31-08-2026

Uren: 40

Standplaats: Amersfoort

(Cloud) Security Engineer/Consultant – Team Protect Team ProTect is the security and privacy unit within the Technology division at KPN, responsible for B2C and Enterprise IT, including cloud, container, and DevOps platforms. We oversee security and privacy for more than 500 applications managed by over 100 teams in the Netherlands and offshore. Our team ensures that all innovation within our scope meets stringent security and privacy standards. On a daily basis, we analyze and advise business units regarding their security and privacy inquiries and developments.

We are seeking a Senior (Cloud) Security Consultant with a strong technical security background and extensive experience to assess security challenges and provide expert guidance to business units regarding their cloud workloads. The ideal candidate will have expertise in multi-cloud environments, cloud security and compliance frameworks, cloud-native security tools, IAM, secure architecture, modern CI/CD pipelines, and security automation. Additionally, demonstrated soft skills are required to influence DevOps teams and IT managers towards enhanced security awareness and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist business/devops teams to migration their workload to public cloud and container platform with right secuirty quality and validate their implementation
• Secure containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless architectures.
• Perform threat modeling in the system architecrture to find and to mitiagate threats
• Analize cloud security non-compliances to determine their root causes and define solutions to address the root causes of non-compliance and validate the implementation
• Collaborate with the cloud platform engineering team to design and integrate into day-by-day operation (operationalize) new cloud security features and services
• Manage vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in a regular basis
• Implement cloud security solutions to help the team with hands on expertise on WAF, End Point Protect, System Hardening and IAM.

• Analyse technical security questions and provide right advice and measure
• Create templates, automations and paved roads to facilitate scalable and faster delivery
• Working with the modern ci/cd pipeline and security toolings in the pipeline for automated security checks to uphold DevSecOps practices
• Support security training and awareness programs when needed.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years experience in security consultation role
• Minimum 3+ years experience in AWS and Azure cloud platforms security
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Understanding of DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and IAM Permissions
• Solid understanding of monitoring and observability for secure cloud systems.
• Excellent analytical ability in complex system setups in a corporate environments
• Naturally curious with a track record of proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Understanding of AI workload and AI security is preffered
• Security certification like CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security specialty is desirable
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a team environment.
• Excellent verbal and witten communication skill in English and in Dutch
• Social skills for providing advice, generating support at higher management level
• Autonomous, driven, with strong ability to quickly adapt and respond to changes