Responsibilities
- Advising Infra Engineering and IT teams on security topics and supporting their work from the security standpoint — maintaining things practical using a risk-based approach with a focus on following areas
- Automation of security controls, security hardening of the developer and IaC processes (building, testing, release), supply chain security (part of the build process), related metrics and monitoring/audits
- Network, Vm & container image and system hardening, Cloud issues and misconfigurations
- Endpoint Security, Infrastructure Identity and Access Management, SIEM, Threat intelligence, common misconfigs (DNS, email, networking, etc.)
- Organising and performing penetration testing of our infrastructure, and collaborating with external parties on those tests.
- Picking tools, methods and approaches to maintain and improve the security stance of the company. (And we have a strong preference towards FOSS tooling when possible)
- Writing and enabling adoption of company-wide security standards and guidelines, as well as implementing tools and automation to enable their deployment.
- Mentoring other team members on all matters related to security and IT and infrastructure engineering.
Requirements
- Focused on outcomes (rather than activities) and outcome based delivery
- Ability to partner with multiple teams in order to (including but not only tackle issues, clarifying requirements, communicating and convincing stakeholders, etc..)
- Comfortable with a Linux-based tech stack (managed VMs, SSH, VPNs, firewalls,)
- Experience with Kubernetes (incl. managed), Terraform, Ansible, Github, Gitlab,, ArgoCD, Image registries
- Experience with various cloud platforms including, Google Cloud, non-managed providers
Nice to Have
- Understanding of blockchain tech and associated tooling (wallets, keys, RPC nodes and indexers etc.)
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
- “Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
- Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects
- Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
- Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
- Team and company-wide retreats
- Work laptop
- Health care, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year), local team events, yearly L&D budget, and language classes (for employees in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K.)
Additional Information
- Parity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.
