About the company
Our client is a fast-growing technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as an early security hire and take broad responsibility for protecting cloud-hosted production systems. You will work inside an infrastructure-focused engineering group, building monitoring and incident response capability and helping set sensible security defaults as the business grows.
What you'll do
- Take charge of the protection of cloud-hosted environments and the hosting services around them.
- Share the workload of the existing senior security engineer by absorbing infrastructure-related duties.
- Design and maintain the way credentials, secrets and permissions are managed across every service.
- Build threat detection and incident response tooling, including log analysis and automated response workflows.
- Work with software engineers to make safe configuration the default, covering identity permissions, network isolation and container orchestration controls.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 4+ years in a hands-on security or infrastructure-oriented engineering role, such as cloud security, security operations, platform work or DevSecOps.
- Background at respected technology companies or startups.
- A degree in a technical or scientific field.
- A track record of owning security outcomes for infrastructure end to end.
- Practical experience securing container orchestration environments, including access controls, policy enforcement and sensitive-data handling.
- Experience setting up and maintaining security settings across cloud environments.
- Ability to work on-site five days a week at the stated location.
Bonus points
- Prior experience as the lone or lead security practitioner at a small organization.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 215,000 to 285,000 per year
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in the office
- Full-time