SecOps Developer
TextNow, Inc.1 month ago
Waterloo, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for TextNow’s services.
- Automate security configurations, compliance checks, and infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
- Participate in on-call security incident response, threat investigation, vulnerability remediation, and proactive defense improvements.
- Implement security monitoring, logging, alerting, anomaly detection, and observability solutions.
- Manage IAM roles, permissions, and policies to enforce least-privilege access across cloud and internal systems.
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and compliance teams to integrate security into the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, risk assessments, automated scanning, and system hardening.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Security Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevSecOps.
- Proficiency with AWS security services, GitHub security controls, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Experience handling security incidents, analyzing threats, and implementing remediation strategies.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, anomaly detection, SIEMs, intrusion detection systems, and cloud-native security solutions.
- Experience working with development teams on security practices such as static and dynamic code analysis.
- Experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines and enforcing security policies.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, system reliability, automation, vulnerability management, and security hardening.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation, annual performance-based bonus, equity opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
- Free phone service, unlimited vacation, 12 paid holidays, and a strong work-life blend.
- Health, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, and a $750 annual wellness benefit or healthcare spending account.
- RRSP matching in Canada or 401(k) in the USA, parental leave for eligible employees, and learning and development opportunities.
- Occasional travel for team events and company-wide off-sites.
About TextNow, Inc.
TextNow builds a free, app-based wireless phone service that provides calling, texting, and basic data on iOS and Android. Its freemium model combines an ad-supported tier with optional paid plans, and it operates much of its own network infrastructure to keep costs low. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, the privately held company serves millions of users across North America.