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Our ideal candidates have a passion for technology, they are constantly exploring, learning and improving their skills. They know where to apply what they have learned and they share their knowledge freely. We embrace fit-for-purpose technology, meaning we have a diverse stack.
Just like our culture, we obsess about building systems that are elegant, performant, reliable and scalable. Our teams are autonomous, collaborative units that share a business and engineering vision, but have the freedom to tweak and influence how they go about their mission.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- 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
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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, a mentor, and able to communicate well
- Shows solid reasoning and decision making
- Possesses the ability to work under pressure
Qualifications & 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.)
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