Senior Security Engineer, Forter

• 5-6+ years of experience in the relevant fields:
• 3+ years experience in a security-focused role
• 3+ years working with high-availability production systems in public cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Programming and infrastructure-as-code experience (Python, NodeJS, Go, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
• Deep understanding of security across every layer of the stack (OS, Network, Application, Database, Storage, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to drive cross-team security initiatives

Desirable

• Determine the strategy to secure the company’s platforms, including the Kubernetes technology stack and the legacy solutions, while adapting a pragmatic approach balancing security and development velocity
• Improve the company’s security standing by developing security features and deploying security products in the company’s cloud infrastructure (account management, network infrastructure, identity and access management, secret management, security monitoring and automation, and production machine access)
• Represent the Security Team as point of contact and source of knowledge in Design Review meetings across Engineering; perform threat analysis, define security controls and security KPIs for implementation and tracking across the organisation
• We are a team of experienced security practitioners and hands-on engineers. We manage a complex set of cloud applications and infrastructure, with petabytes of sensitive data flowing through numerous datastores and thousands of cloud compute instances providing the logic for real-time decision making. The team needs to meet the challenge of sophisticated external attacks, while still providing the engineers with a smooth development experience
• We work with every engineering team on their level, building new products and features while also re-evaluating and overhauling everything that has been built over the years
• Take an active role with great impact and ownership potential, work independently and within the team to shape the security process across Engineering during an active growth phase of the company
• Design, build, promote, and maintain security infrastructure and tools used by all of Forter's engineering teams
• Work across teams and functions, think critically, and make hard decisions while making your tradeoffs transparent
• Perform risk assessments and negotiate with other teams on where to invest effort
• Mentor and build relationships with “Security Champions” in Engineering to design and build secure applications