Senior Software Security Engineer

Duties and responsibilities:

• Architecting and implementing technical solutions to support defensive security
• Mentoring and coaching security within the organisation
• Deploying, operating, and monitoring SIEM, IPS/IDS, UEBA, etc.
• Responding to Security Incidents
• Expanding security auditing and monitoring capabilities
• Developing custom applications to monitor red flag situations
• Working with SRE to secure the platform, hardening servers, networks, Kubernetes
• Working with Application teams to secure code, consulting on implementations
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
• Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems

Qualifications and experience:

• A Formal Qualification/Degree in Computer Science or at least 5 years of professional experience in a similar role
• Solid, working understanding of web technologies (HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, TLS)
• Solid, working understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP, nmap, wireshark, etc.)
• Experience with WAF (Cloudflare)
• Experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or containers in general
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, Grafana
• Experience with Build Systems (Jenkins)
• Experience with defensive systems (SIEM, IDS/IPS, Canaries, Fail2Ban, etc.)

The skills we need:

• Is passionate about technology and security
• Is curious, always learning, and keeps up to date with the industry
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making
• Possesses the ability to work under pressure