Senior Security Operations Engineer

As a Security Engineer, drive innovation to ensure continuous security and play a pivotal role in strengthening our defenses. Proactively address security incidents and vulnerabilities while delivering consistent solutions to secure our application stacks and fortify our IT infrastructure against evolving threats.

Responsibilities

• Provide security expertise and advice for implementing new technologies and products.
• Monitor the overall IT security landscape and enforce the continuous improvement of the security of (customer) solutions end-to-end.
• Evaluate early warnings and initiate remedial activities to mitigate risks (i.e. patching).
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and scans across the organization's IT infrastructure to identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities.
• Manage day-to-day security operations and follow-up on security events.
• Develop and maintain automated security scripts and tools to enhance the organization's cybersecurity posture, streamline processes, and proactively identify vulnerabilities.
• Support the response plan of security incidents and forensic investigations.
• Advises, influences, and educates the rest of the team on matters of compliance and security. Implement and oversee security incident response strategies for our cloud environment, ensuring rapid threat detection and effective mitigation to protect cloud assets.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or equivalent through experience
• At least three years experience in IT and Cybersecurity
• Experience of utilizing industry-standard vulnerability scanning tools and software to identify and assess security vulnerabilities within complex IT environments.
• Good understanding of Cyber Incident Response processes.
• Experience in managing and developing Security Event and Information Management Systems (SIEM).
• Understanding of functionality of security technologies like Firewalls, Proxies, endpoint protection.
• Expertise in cloud security practices and technologies, ensuring the protection of cloud-based assets.

Personal Skills & Behaviors

• Clear written and verbal communication and active listening skills
• Excellent technical aptitude and a desire to learn constantly
• Analytical and communication skills: is able to articulate technical concepts (or exposures) in clear speech and prose, and enables product stakeholders a fact based risk assessment
• Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, Ethical Hacker) are a plus
• Is a team player, comfortable with open communication in an agile cross-functional team
• Adopts a risk based approach and perspective
• Actively questions security claims and is challenged by finding gaps
• Has a strong work ethic and stands tall, even in times of high work pressure

What we offer

• A home for passionate people who innovate, collaborate and love what they do.
• An entrepreneurial and dynamic working atmosphere with the opportunity for you to take responsibility and make an impact from day one.
• Growth opportunities on and off the job and a generous individual development budget to develop your career.
• A competitive salary and benefits package, with flexible working hours and remote work options, private health insurance and 3 additional vacation days.

Recruitment Team
For questions please contact us via KDcampusporto.recruitment@koerber.com
Please apply exclusively via the “Apply now” button. Recruiter: Vasco Bessa

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