Security Engineer

Were a global team of over 400 people working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to become the trusted Data & AI Platform for everyone leveraging the most popular open-source technologies like Apache Kafka Aiven for PostgreSQL Aiven for Clickhouse and Aiven for OpenSearch. to help companies accelerate time-to-market drive efficiency and build innovative solutions across any cloud.

The Role :

We are looking for a skilled Security Engineer to actively monitor and maintain security controls across our SaaS / PaaS platform and offerings along with user endpoints. This role is crucial for protecting our business systems and production infrastructure by focusing on the operational health and effectiveness of our core security technologies.

What Youll Do :

The Security Operations Engineer plays a hands-on role in the day-to-day defense and engineering of the security platform :

• Advanced Alert Triage and Incident Command : Proactively monitor and conduct in-depth analysis of SIEM alerts and endpoint detection events across the multi-cloud production environment. Serve as a key responder executing advanced incident response playbooks performing digital forensics and leading post-incident remediation and documentation.
• SOC Tooling Engineering and Optimization : Take ownership of the Security Operations Center (SOC) technology stack. This involves managing tuning and optimizing the SIEM and EDR platforms by managing log source on-boarding creating new use cases and fine-tuning rules to reduce false positives and improve detection efficacy.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Management : Utilize IaC principles and scripting to manage and deploy security configurations detection rules and security infrastructure efficiently and consistently.
• Threat Hunting : Develop and execute proactive threat hunting queries within security tools to identify stealthy threats.
• Cloud Security Operations : Apply a strong understanding of cloud environments (AWS Azure Google Cloud) to implement operate and troubleshoot cloud-native security capabilities translating security policies into enforceable technical controls.

What Were Looking For :

Key requirements for success in this hands-on operational and engineering role include :

Our Offer :

If you ask us whats the best thing about working for Aiven many will probably say its the high concentration of talent from around the world that we have here. Enjoy the agile environment of a hyperscale scale-up where you can truly make an impact and have fun while at it.

We invest in you :

Make a difference at Aiven :

What else :

Amazing! Whats next :

Once you apply you should hear from our Talent Experience Partnering team within five days regarding the status of your application. If you are selected to move forward you can generally expect the following stages with us :

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Equal Opportunities :

Aiven provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to age gender identity national or ethnic origin religion sexual orientation physical and mental ability marital and family status or without regard to any other similar personal attributes. Aiven complies with applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff transfer leaves of absence compensation training and any other terms and conditions related to employment.

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Key Skills

Splunk,IDS,Network security,Computer Networking,Identity & Access Management,PKI,PCI,NIST Standards,Security System Experience,Information Security,Encryption,Siem

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1