PaaS

Mission

To reinforce our commitment to customers’ privacy and security, for its PaaS solution, Platform.sh is looking for a Security Engineer with a taste for Python and Go, good Linux system understanding, outstanding written English skills, and exposure to security standards. If you’re looking for an exciting, high-growth opportunity with an award-winning, cutting-edge company, this could be the job for you.

We are targeting engineers that can function in a high-performing, multithreaded, 100% cloud-based, remote environment when provided with flexible hours.

Security, privacy, and compliance controls are at the heart of what we do as our mission is to simplify the cloud. The job is to transform what is often regarded as red tape and constraints into a well-oiled machine where everything is automated and where every constraint becomes a feature making our product better.

This role reports to our Security Operations Manager and works in close interaction with our CTO, VP of Infrastructure, VP of Engineering, VP of Privacy and Security, and our Customer Support teams.

In a given day you might:

• Act as a technical liaison between the Security department and our product, engineering, support, and operations staff.
• Create documentation and processes in English to help satisfy compliance requirements and/or internal process questions.
• Evaluate, deploy, and create systems and tools that will enhance our efficiency and automation.
• Support our staff by responding to information requests
• Coordinate pen-testing, internal and external vulnerability scanning, disaster recovery, and related activities.
• Execute our security incident management process.
• Ensure all systems and services in our environment are securely designed, configured, managed, and monitored.
• Work with external auditors to answer questions on our certifications such as PCI and SOC 2.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, the majority of which is during normal working hours.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Excellent written English skills
• Linux (preferably Debian-based) sysadmin experience
• Operate largely independently (go take that hill) with team lead/management support
• Able to juggle several requests at the same time
• Experience with git-based workflows
• Working knowledge of
  • Patch and Vulnerability Management process
  • Principle of Least Privilege
  • Incident response
  • Identity and Access Management
  • IPTABLES
  • Encryption: TLS, SSH, Disk, etc.
  • Ticketed change control
  • Snapshot-based backups
  • Containerization technologies (LXC/LXD, Docker)

Skills that enhance your application:

• AWS, Google, and/or Azure certifications
• CISSP Certification
• Experience with
  • Python or Golang
  • Securing cloud services (AWS in particular)
  • Securing cloud services (AWS in particular)
  • Implementing PCI, SOC 2, or related
  • Performing vendor security reviews
  • Puppet
  • Writing in Markdown
  • Relational databases
• Knowledge of Magento Ecommerce, Symfony, Drupal, Ibexa Cloud, or Typo3
• Can bravely take on new challenges like a Gryffindor, analyze problems like Ravenclaw, protects our infrastructure and client data like a Slytherin, and talks with clients like a Hufflepuff.

Sound Like a Good Fit? We’d love to talk to you!

* This is a remote job

We are a worldwide distributed team and are looking for a candidate who can perform well working remotely. To be an effective performer here at Platform.sh, you’ll need to be able to effectively collaborate across time zones while operating with a high level of independence and autonomy.

About Platform.sh

Platform.sh is an idea-to-cloud application platform that simplifies cloud infrastructures.

We give developers the tools they need to experiment, innovate, get rapid feedback, and deliver better-quality features with speed and confidence thanks to our unique rapid cloning technology.

Platform.sh serves thousands of customers worldwide including The Financial Times, Gap, Magento Commerce, Adobe, Orange, Hachette, Ikea, Stanford University, Harvard University, The British Council, and Lufthansa.

We want people who are passionate, open, multicultural, friendly, humble, and smart to join us and help this fast-growing, award-winning company to revolutionize the tech industry.