Cloud Security Engineer

About the job

GoDutch is looking for a Cloud Security Engineer (GCP) to become the first dedicated security engineer in its Engineering team, based in Amsterdam.

GoDutch is a Dutch fintech platform used by more than 15,000 SMEs and growing fast. Business accounts, cards, invoicing, bookkeeping and payments sit in one app.

The engineering team is rapidly growing, senior and close to the product. You will work directly with the CPTO, the Head of Engineering and the Chief Compliance & Risk Officer. Your work is visible from day one: you set the security baseline that the new platform and every future engineer will build on.

What you will do, in short

In a financial institution, security is not only about protecting systems. It is about earning customer trust, meeting DORA and supervisory expectations, and keeping money movements correct. You will own GoDutch's cloud security posture end to end, turn written policy into working controls, and steer the specialist partners who operate parts of the stack today.

What you will do

As the security subject matter expert for GoDutch's engineering teams, this could mean:

Cloud and platform security

• Own the security posture of GoDutch's Google Cloud organisation: IAM, org policies, VPC Service Controls, KMS and secrets, logging and cloud posture management.

• Harden the Kubernetes environment that hosts the banking platform, including workload isolation and least-privilege access between services.

• Secure the event and orchestration layer (Kafka, Temporal, Apache Camel) and the data platform (BigQuery), including encryption, access and data residency.

• Review and advise on the security of system designs, partner integrations and APIs (core banking, card processing, payments, KYC/KYB).

• Build and maintain security dashboards that give management and the board a clear view of cloud assets and posture.

Secure delivery (DevSecOps)

• Work with engineering and the platform partner to embed security gates into CI/CD and GitOps (Argo CD): SAST, dependency and container scanning, IaC policy checks, secrets detection.

• Establish secure development guidelines for Java/Quarkus and TypeScript services, and support teams in adopting them.

• Run threat modelling for new features and integrations that move money or handle customer data.

Detection, response and resilience

• Configure and tune threat detection, alerting and response playbooks across cloud workloads, observability and endpoints.

• Participate in incident response, including security investigation and input for DORA major-incident classification and reporting.

• Contribute security scenarios to business continuity and disaster recovery testing.

• Coordinate penetration tests and, where in scope, threat-led testing; track findings to closure.

Governance, risk and compliance

• Turn GoDutch's information security policies and standards into implemented, evidenced controls, against CIS Controls, ISO 27001 and DORA.

• Maintain the ICT asset register and vulnerability management process, and feed the GRC platform with control evidence.

• Assess the ICT security of third-party providers and support the Register of Information and contract requirements under DORA.

• Prepare evidence and answers for regulators, auditors and partner due diligence

• Coordinate with GoDutch's managed service providers and external security partner, holding them to agreed scope and quality.

Awareness and continuous improvement

• Run security training and awareness for engineering and the wider company.

• Track security metrics and report on posture improvements to the CPTO and management.

• Stay current with emerging threats and recommend tools and practices that fit a lean team.

Our tech stack

Java/Quarkus, TypeScript, Python/Django, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Kafka, Temporal, Apache Camel, Argo CD.

Security tooling covers cloud posture management, enterprise EDR, centralised logging and observability, zero-trust network access and a central identity provider, run together with specialist partners. Details are shared during the interview process.

What you need to succeed

GoDutch is looking for someone who is passionate about security, combines hands-on technical depth with clear communication, and is comforta