Overview of the role
Bestway Healthcare is a growing healthcare businesses, operating across both pharmaceutical wholesale and community pharmacy sectors and employing over 6500 colleagues nationwide.
The Cyber Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, and continually improving the organisation's cloud and cyber security posture across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role will work closely with infrastructure, networking, application, DevOps, and business teams to ensure security is embedded into all technology services and projects.
Main Responsibility
- Design and maintain secure architectures and technical controls across Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, hybrid and approved Cloud services.
- Deliver secure configuration and designs, investigation findings, vulnerability remediation plans, monitoring improvements, documented standards and playbooks, risk assessments, audit evidence and management summaries.
- Play a key role in protecting our AWS and Azure cloud environments, ensuring security controls, configurations and services remain aligned to best industry practise, internal standards and PCI DSS, CE+ requirements.
- Works collaboratively with IT Security, Infrastructure, Networks, Architecture, Applications, Digital, DevOps, Data Protection, Audit and external security or cloud suppliers.
- Provides technical evaluation and recommendations that influence security tooling, cloud service and supplier expenditure.
- Decides the technical severity and priority of findings, appropriate containment and remediation actions, required security controls, and when material risk or exceptions must be escalated.
- As a trusted cloud security specialist, you will champion secure-by-design principles, provide expert guidance to stakeholders, and maintain clear documentation and reporting to demonstrate compliance, highlight risks and drive continuous improvement across our cloud estate.
- Act as a cloud security subject matter expert.
- Provides technical direction and constructive challenge but has no direct reports.
The Ideal Candidate
- The successful candidate will have previous experience protecting business critical systems and data, reducing cyber risk, supporting compliance initiatives, and ensuring cloud technologies are deployed securely in line with best industry practice and regulatory requirements
- Desirable certifications include Microsoft AZ-500, SC-200, SC-300 or SC-100, plus CISSP, CISM, CCSP Security+ or ISO27001 Lead Implementor/Auditor
- Hands on experience securing MS Azure, MS365, AWS in a medium or large organisation, including Entra ID, Conditional Access, PIM, Defender, Sentinel and Intune.
Bestway Healthcare is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.
Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.
About the Company
For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.
Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.
The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.
We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.
We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.
‘Together we make a difference’
