it security engineer

This position involves driving improvements for a vital business enabler, necessitating collaboration with developers and

DevOps teams. We're looking for self-starters who are highly motivated to make a positive impact on the global organization by finding solutions to security problems without letting security becoming a blocker.Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• This is a highly technical role, hands-on, code driven. It is not suitable for people who are primarily operational risk / audit focused, or anyone who can’t code.

Following items are ‘must have’ at a deeply specialist level:

• Core IT security principles
• Securing AWS environments
• Ability to code
• Automating security processes and systems
• Code security - must have knowledge and experience of source code reviews.

Following items are ‘must have’ at a good level of competence:

• Code repositories / management
• AWS
• ECR
• ECS
• Networking
• Users’ management
• Secrets Manager
• CI/CD pipelines
• Python
• Ansible
• CDK
• Lean and understand new technologies.

Following items are acceptable at a basic level of competence:

• Basic cryptography experience.
• Java
• Gitlabs
• Azure

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for securing our AWS environments, you'll take charge of day-to-day security work while planning and implementing long-term strategies.
• Collaborating closely with DevOps teams, on ensuring the security of new systems from the start.
• You will work to seamlessly integrate security into both existing and new DevOps pipelines to drive enhancing the security of code produced by various teams and projects.
• You will guide and educate developers on how fix critical security problems in their code.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

• CISO, Security Engineering Leads, Head of Infrastructure, Lead Developers, Devops teams

Reporting Structure

• Reports to Head of Security Engineering