WP Engine Waterford, County Waterford, Ireland
Lead Cloud Security Engineer
We are hiring a Lead Cloud Security Engineer with cloud, Linux, and automation security experience. You can work 100% remotely in this role in Poland. Join our highly-collaborative team and help us secure the platform that drives many of the world's most popular sites!
What Is Cool About This Job
Come join our highly-collaborative team and help us secure the platform that drives many of the world's most popular sites! WP Engine Security is the team who secures it all, and we need your help.
Our Team's Non-Negotiable Expectations
* The WP Engine platform is secure. Period.
* Customer data is protected from unauthorised access. Period.
* WP Engine’s security culture and practices enable the achievement of its business objectives. Period.
* We make this happen, every day, 24x7x365, and we have a lot of fun doing it.
Your Expertise and Passion
You love to collaborate, influence, educate, and negotiate with our internal partners. You give others the benefit of the doubt and avoid black-and-white thinking when it comes to risk. You are creative, expressive, and strive for solutions where everyone wins. You love to build strong partnerships across the company and seeing others succeed.
Required Background
* Solid understanding and demonstrated expertise managing cloud security controls and ensuring the security of cloud service offerings (IAM, firewalls/ACL, IDS/IPS, WAF, load balancers, proxies, Linux hosts, storage, serverless, etc.) for at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS or Azure)
* 5+ years experience in a security engineering or related role (analyst, consultant, etc.)
* Experience securing Kubernetes and containersed workloads
* Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and associated security validations
* Experience working with API integrations and developing custom security automation (e.g. Python, Golang, Bash)
* Strong Linux security experience (hardening, vulnerability management, security alerting, etc.)
* Experience handling security incidents and performing associated investigative activities in a Linux and cloud-based environment
* Advanced ability to communicate clearly and influence others as a domain expert for cloud security, including the development of appropriate standards, guidelines, processes and procedures
Nice-to-Haves
* Multi-cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Azure, Heroku)
* Hands‑on experience managing vendor- or internally-developed multi‑cloud security controls
* Application security and code reviews experience
* Threat modelling experience
* Hands‑on experience with Cloudflare WAF
* Familiarity with SQL and data analysis techniques
* Experience with DevOps practices and tooling
* Relevant security certifications
Perks and Benefits
* Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
* Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
* Pension Scheme with a match
* Life Insurance and Income Protection (100% Paid)
* Supplementary Maternity & Paternity Pay and Caregiver’s Leave
* Employee Assistance Program
* Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
* Home Office Stipend
* Tax free annual wellness benefit through Clevercards
* 4 Company Wellness Days
* On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal
* Free annual subscription to Calm
At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
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