Senior Cloud Security Engineer
THE ROLE📝
You’ll design, implement, and maintain defensive security controls that protect our high-availability, multi-cloud payment systems built on modern technologies. Your deep understanding of current threats, exploitation methods, and risk trade-offs will enable you to guide engineering teams on effective security features and ensure the right defensive measures are prioritised.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR 🔍
Essential
- You live on the linux command line
- Your current research and experience back up your opinionated views on security practices and tradeoffs, which you love to openly debate and willingly share
- You’re sought after for your security engineering expertise, having built multiple security controls that are actively proven in large production estates
- Your security expertise extends to at least one public cloud, including essential security features and long-term security hardening practices
- You have a good grounding in Kubernetes security and have ideally developed complex, heavily customised multi-cluser environments
- 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 our on-call rota, ready to respond if we have a severe, platform-impacting security tooling failure or need second-line security incident response assistance
Desirable
- You have an interest in offensive security, potentially including participation in CTFs and past experience as a red team operator or pen tester
- 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 Form3’s tech stack – including Golang 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
THE TEAM 👥
You will join a team of defensive security engineers directly maintaining and expanding security controls as well as advising the wider platform and application engineers within our R&D team. We report into the CISO and work alongside the other functional pillars of InfoSec.
INTERVIEW PROCESS ✍️
Stage 1: Screening Call with Talent Team
Stage 2: Technical Interview – Building secure cloud architectures & team alignment
Stage 3: Technical Interview – Container and Linux Security, including a short pre-interview research topic
We always aim to stick to the above process, however there may be occasions when an additional interview stage is needed for us to be sure we’re hiring the right person!
HIRING LOCATIONS 📍
We are a remote-first organisation and are able to accept applications from the following countries; Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal & UK
All new joiners start their first day in our office to collect the equipment needed to work remotely. We'll also arrange for some of your team to come in to say hi, ensuring you're supported and have a positive first few days with Form3!
ABOUT FORM3 💭
Revolutionising the world of payments with our cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. For more information about life at Form3 check out the following pages:
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OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT
We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We’re united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.
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