THE ROLE
Our client within the Fintech space is hiring a Senior Cloud Security Engineer with Kubernetes Security expertise, to build and run defensive security controls for highly-available multi-cloud payment systems running the latest technology. You understand current threats, exploitation paths and risk tradeoffs in order to advise engineering teams on beneficial security features as well as prioritise management of defensive controls.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍
Essential
- You live on the linux command line
- You enjoy discussing views on the latest security practices and sharing your ideas.
- You have strong Kubernetes security expertise and have developed complex, heavily customised multi-cluster environments
- You have hands on security expertise in at least one public cloud, including essential security features and long-term security hardening practices
- You appreciate building systems with good engineering practices and may have a background in software engineering at scale
- You’re open to being a part of an on-call rota, ready to respond in the event of a severe, platform-impacting security tooling failure or need for second-line security incident response assistance
- You have an interest in offensive security and past experience as a red team operator or pen tester
Desirable
- You’ve developed security configurations in multiple public and private clouds
- You’re a confident presenter and have accelerated appreciation of security across engineering teams
- You regularly support building and analysis of threat models using a well defined process
- You have experience securing data centers and networking devices
- You’re terrified by supply chain and CI/CD security, but have good patterns for reducing the risks
- Your engineering experiences matches our tech – including Go and Terraform
TECH STACK
- AWS, GCP, Azure and private Data Centers
- Kubernetes, Helm, Flux
- Distributed systems, mostly Golang based with CockroachDB and NATS
- SIEM/SOAR, EDR, CNAPP, and a suite of open source tools with custom integrations
This is a fully remote role, based in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Spain or Portugal. Applicants must have citizenship or other permanent right to work status in order to be considered, the client cannot sponsor visas or offer relocation.
Please reach out to Sophie if you’d like to learn more!
sophie.cowan@socotalent.io
