Security Engineer
Proxima Fusion1 day ago
Munich, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Build and operate security monitoring capabilities, including selecting and tuning a SIEM.
- Own incident response from investigation through post-mortem and remediation.
- Harden endpoints, EDR, identity and access, networks, and infrastructure.
- Mature Zero Trust controls using identity, device posture, conditional access, and MFA.
- Secure Google Workspace through DLP, data classification, retention, and context-aware access.
- Secure the software supply chain, including source control, access boundaries, secrets, and CI/CD.
- Run vulnerability and attack-surface management and drive remediation with system owners.
- Set and monitor physical security standards covering access zones, CCTV, alerting, visitors, contractors, and site access processes.
- Provide technical evidence, remediation, and support for compliance audits and penetration tests.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience with depth in identity, endpoint, and infrastructure security.
- Experience building or substantially operating a SIEM and managing real security incidents end-to-end.
- Production experience implementing Zero Trust with a unified identity provider, MDM, conditional access, and device posture controls.
- Strong knowledge of Google Workspace Enterprise security or the ability to quickly transfer equivalent-platform experience.
- Automation experience with Terraform and scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Fluency in CIS Benchmarks, NIST, ISO 27001, and NIS2.
- Ability to translate technical findings into business impact and actionable solutions.
- Interest or track record in AI security is preferred.
- Hands-on cloud and container security experience with GCP, containers, or Kubernetes is preferred.
- Certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, CCSP, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer are preferred.
- Experience in regulated, export-controlled, or high-security environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Work on a civilisation-scale clean-energy and fusion mission.
- Join a rapidly growing company with opportunities for increasing ownership and leadership scope.
- Role based in Munich; the interview process includes recruiter, technical screening, technical panel, and CEO stages.
- The role sits at L2/L3 of the company’s framework.
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About Proxima Fusion
Proxima Fusion designs and builds stellarator-based fusion power plants for utility-scale electricity generation, developing hardware, superconducting magnets, and control software to commercialize fusion energy. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Munich, it is a privately held spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) with teams in Munich, Zurich, and Oxford. The company advances the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator lineage through next-generation machines (Alpha and Stellaris) on the path to commercial deployment.