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Senior II Security Engineer - Platform

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5 months ago
Barcelona, SpainSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own platform security across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP, with emphasis on detection, alerting, and incident response readiness.
  • Lead cross-functional platform security initiatives from problem definition through rollout, production operation, and iteration.
  • Improve Datadog SIEM detection and response through better logging, actionable detections, tuning, triage workflows, escalation paths, playbooks, and runbooks.
  • Strengthen cloud, Kubernetes, identity, privileged access, auditability, secrets management, workload identity, and secure deployment practices.
  • Partner with SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC teams to improve suspicious-activity and sensitive-access monitoring.
  • Participate in Security on-call rotations and partner with SRE during incidents.
  • Build security automation that makes secure engineering practices easier to adopt.

Requirements

  • Strong experience securing cloud and platform environments, especially AWS and Kubernetes, with the ability to extend the approach to GCP.
  • Hands-on experience delivering technical security initiatives end-to-end in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience working with CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
  • Practical identity and access security experience, including familiarity with Okta event monitoring and identity-focused detections.
  • Experience building or maturing security operations capabilities, including SIEM triage, runbooks, tuning, and measurable improvement.
  • Experience improving logging coverage and signal quality and building actionable, low-noise detections; Datadog SIEM experience is a plus.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, business judgment, and cross-functional influence skills.
  • Minimum C1 English level.
  • Willingness to participate in on-call rotations.
  • Preferred experience with Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale, Jenkins hardening, CI/CD supply-chain security, Cloudflare security controls, scripting or programming, and cloud-native incident response.

Benefits

  • Open, collaborative, dynamic, and diverse culture.
  • Monthly allowance for Preply lessons and a Learning & Development budget with time off for self-development.
  • Financial package including equity, leave allowance, and health insurance.
  • Relocation package for candidates joining the Barcelona Hub from outside Barcelona.
  • Free mental health support platforms.
  • Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain.

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