Role overview

Senior SecOps Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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What You'll Do

  • Driving the design and implementation of defense-in-depth infrastructure and application security solutions for our customer facing SaaS platform in AWS public cloud environments
  • Driving architecture, implementation, configuration and automation of native and third party cloud security solutions for hardening, detection, prevention, logging and response solutions for security vulnerabilities and threats
  • Provide thought leadership with a security bent of mind to the organization
  • Working closely with Product, Engineering and IT in a DevSecOps model on technologies like FWs, ACLs, WAFs, IAM roles and permissions, Vulnerability management and hardening, Threat and Intrusion detection, Kubernetes Container Security solutions, Pen Test and endpoint security
  • Assisting in incident response and triaging activities as needed for security incidents and events
  • Using AI in security operations to streamline and optimize the security incident management, resolution.

What You'll Need

  • 5-7 years of previous experience deploying and administering security infrastructure in AWS public cloud environments, using Infrastructure as Code required
  • In-depth hands-on experience with at least one public Cloud platform (AWS or GCP) with advanced knowledge of securing IaaS platforms and services like WAFs, Security Groups, EC2/Compute, EKS/GKE, ECR/GCR, S3/Cloud Storage, RDS/Cloud SQL, Logging and Monitoring
  • Prior experience working closely with Product, DevOps and CloudOps' Site Reliability Engineers on shift-left strategies, CI/CD tools and solutions needed
  • Experience working on DLP and endpoint security product is a big plus
  • Security experience in a cloud native environment in one or more areas: authentication, access management, API security, Linux security, vulnerability scanning, threat and intrusion detection, firewalls, WAF, encryption technologies, container security etc.
  • Experience using a programming language such as Python for automation (would be a plus)
  • Security certifications from AWS, GCP , CISSP, CEH, OSCP preferred
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FocusSecurity OperationsRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackAWS, CI/CD, GCPPrimary skills
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