Software Engineer - Platform Security
Hybrid · London, England, United Kingdom or Malmö, Skåne, Sweden
Job Summary
Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS and/or GCP to enforce security baselines at scale, integrating with open-source and vendor tools. Enhance product security along the SDLC by creating paved roads and defining security and software-excellence requirements for containerised services on multiple managed Kubernetes clusters. Act as a subject matter expert for Platform and Engineering teams on cloud/K8s security, secure infrastructure-as-code, and modern AuthN/AuthZ techniques (e.g. SPIFFE) and secrets management. Collaborate to define and implement Cloud/K8s native policies (Kyverno, Pod Security Standards). Conduct security assessments, audits and architecture reviews to improve security posture, and support incident detection and response with cloud monitoring and debugging scripts. The ideal candidate would have experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code and languages like Go, Java, Python; security engineering background; cloud, IAM, OIDC/OAuth2, mTLS, service mesh knowledge; Kubernetes hardening; API/microservice architecture on containers.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code and programming languages such as Go, Java and/or Python
- Proven experience in a security engineering role with hands-on technical involvement
- Active interest and background in Cloud, Infrastructure and/or Network security
- Proven track record with cloud-native authentication mechanisms (i.e. OIDC, OAuth2), secrets management, admission controllers, service mesh, mTLS and cloud based IAM solutions
- Familiarity with securing and hardening K8s clusters, containerised applications and Linux hosts
- Demonstrated ability to architect cloud-native applications including the design of APIs and microservices on containers
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