Senior Security Engineer

We are looking for a Sr. Security Engineer adept at enhancing organizational security protocols to mitigate the risk of breaches. Your role involves crafting, implementing, and maintaining security automation solutions, collaborating with various teams to fortify our defenses.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing automated security measures to ensure the ongoing protection of our applications and establishing the security posture of the company and our labs
• Conducting thorough security evaluations of processes, infrastructure, and applications
• Strengthening and Hardening networks, containers, machines, and cloud resources
• Crafting and enforcing security policies, protocols and documentations
• Swiftly responding to security incidents and prescribing effective remediation strategies
• Cultivating relationships across departments to advocate for security initiatives
• Offering expert guidance to teams to construct secure and user-friendly solutions
• Design, maintain, and administer IT security policies and practices training sessions utilizing our internal learning management system
• Providing hands-on support to ensure practical security practices are embedded in daily operations

Your qualifications:

• You have at least 3 years of experience as a IT Security Practitioner in any of the following areas or roles: Cybersecurity, Dev[Sec]Ops Engineer, Security Specialist/Analyst or even as an InfoSec Manager/Lead
• You’re a practitioner of the following technical stacks:
• A native on administering different Operating systems such as Linux (RedHat or CentOS, Debian or Ubuntu), Windows and MacOS
• Expertise in the cybersecurity best practices of hybrid IT environments, from physical/baremetal to containerized, and cloud application environments
• Experience on supporting Cloud Environments such as Platforms and Technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Platform (GCP), Akamai Cloud (Linode) or Microsoft Azure
• A fan of automation using scripting and programming languages such as Shell (Bash), Python or PowerShell
• Understanding of Monitoring, Alerting & Observability Concepts and Technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills and a strong customer service orientation
• Proficiency in managing and securing both on-premise and cloud infrastructure
• A proven track record of instilling a culture of security excellence within organizations, promoting secure coding and design principles
• Diligent in creating documentations and best practice guides for our team members.
• Experience in utilizing industry standard and enterprise-grade security tools and practices
• Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively within cross-functional teams
• You are self-sufficient, self-starter with proven success on taking strong ownership of projects
• Willing to work onsite, and on-call for high-priority incidents.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Plus Points:

• Familiarity or experience working with Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) workflows
• Knowledge in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes