Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Lightspeed
Security
Point of Sale & commerce platform
Job no longer available
Point of Sale & commerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring the streets of our cities and communities to life by powering business owners with technology.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, and managing security within large-scale cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, cybersecurity, network engineering, or a similar field
- Significant experience aligning systems with regulations (PCI DSS, SOC2, etc.) and conducting risk assessments
- AWS Certified Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer, Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Engineer, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives
- Conduct regular risk and vulnerability assessments of cloud infrastructure, applications, and data
- Identify, prioritize, and triage vulnerabilities based on severity and potential impact
- Work closely with cloud architects, engineers, developers, and operations teams to provide guidance and recommendations for improving security posture based on vulnerability assessment findings
- Participate in incident response, and assist in remediation efforts
- Research, assess, and select security tools and technologies best suited for the organization's vulnerability management program
- Partner/mentor fellow security team members, fostering expertise across multiple cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Identify and work to develop automation to detect, alert and protect against malicious activities
- Generate reports and metrics to track vulnerability trends, remediation progress, and compliance with security standards
- Experience with Application Vulnerability Management, SAST, and DAST
- Experience with Vulnerability Management tools such as Rapid7 InsightAppSec, Snyk, Github, Crowdstrike Falcon Cloud and Endpoint Security
- Expert-level understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) and security principles
- Extensive knowledge of security principles, access controls (IAM), network security, encryption, vulnerability management, threat modelling, and incident response
- Expertise in designing and implementing cloud security architectures
- Expertise in security frameworks, regulations, and compliance requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
- Excels in cross-functional collaboration
- Ability to adapt to a complex and ever-changing environment
What the job involves
- The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Security serves as a critical member of the Security Vulnerability Management team, designing and assisting in the implementation of highly secure cloud environments
- They champion security best practices, proactively identify and mitigate risks, vulnerabilities, security related misconfigurations and help guide the organization in aligning security with business goals
- This role collaborates extensively with various teams, assists in incident response, and mentors others to elevate the organization's overall security posture
- Work with SRE teams to design, implement, and maintain highly secure cloud and application infrastructure, emphasizing network segmentation, access controls, encryption, monitoring, vulnerability and patch management, among others
- Advocate for security best practices and proactive threat mitigation throughout the organization
- Develop and maintain cloud security standards, leveraging industry frameworks (NIST, CIS, etc.) and cloud provider recommendations
- Evaluate designs and architectures for potential vulnerabilities, proposing risk mitigation measures
- Ensure seamless integration of cloud security solutions across cloud and on-premise infrastructure
- What will make you successful:
- You have built strong relationships within SRE teams, enabling you to effectively champion security initiatives and drive organizational change
- You have achieved a deep level of understanding across all aspects of Lightspeed’s complex cloud environments
- You are able to own and drive complex cloud security projects from concept to completion, working with and engaging stakeholders across the organization as necessary
- Overall reduction in organizational risk due to improved cloud architecture, controls, and remediated vulnerabilities and risk assessments
- On-call availability for incident response
- Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role
Our take
Lightspeed provides restaurateurs and retailers with the simplest way to run their businesses at full potential. It helps entrepreneurs offer their customers positive and memorable experiences by taking care of the day-to-day management aspects of their business.
Around 75,000 businesses processing over $17 billion in transactions annually use Lightspeed’s restaurant POS software and omnichannel retail solution to manage inventory, customer preferences, sales and reporting — all from one centralised platform. Headquartered in Montreal, Lightspeeds team is distributed across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, now serving over 150,000 locations worldwide.
Lightspeed POS maintains a unique edge over other companies of its type because it has secured the legal rights for the sole use of certain technologies. It has two registered patents in computing, calculating categories. These patents certify that Lightspeed POS is the sole owner of this intellectual property, which means that no other companies can use them.
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Meet the team
45 people
Matthew Passmore, Field Implementation Team Lead
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Company
Company benefits
- With Lightspeed PX, you can enjoy flexible paid time off and up to 2 months remote per year with our hybrid work policy
- Equity options, because this is your company too
- Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, from #coffee_pals to sponsored sports teams
- Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
Company values
- We make it matter.
- We make it happen.
- We make it together.
- We make it human.
- We make it about the customer.
- We make it data driven.
Company HQ
Old Montreal, Montreal, QC
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Leadership
Dax Dasilva
(Executive Chair)Founder of Never Apart, previously Developer of Bitmovers. Studied Computer Science, Art History, and Religious Studies at The University of British Columbia. Served as CEO for Lightspeed for 17 years until 2022.
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