Senior Security Engineer

Job Description

Koombea is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team in Barranquilla or as a remote worker. Your main goal is to develop advanced security enterprise-wide architecture by partnering with program managers and developers to provide guidance and best practices, automate security, and make secure development and deployment easier.

Responsibilities

• Develop security documentation, training, and guidance for internal infrastructure and engineering teams
• Consult with internal teams and assist with architecture, threat modeling, and reviewing systems and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in architecture, make appropriate recommendations, and drive teams to implement those recommendations
• Identify and implement security technical and process improvements
• Define and own metrics to determine effectiveness of security controls
• Apply comprehensive hardening to infrastructure platforms, deployment code, and images
• Architect, build, automate, and operate automated security controls/tools and review capabilities
• Be a champion for security culture and excellence, exercise risk-based judgement and prioritize remediation work
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Skills

• Excellent command of the English language.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent experience or education
• 5 years of experience in a hands-on security role with a demonstrated mastery of multiple classes of security defects.
• Understanding of cloud computing platforms and cloud-based infrastructure design and operation
• Understanding of container technologies, security, and tooling (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)
• Understanding of networking, routing, and web related protocols
• Experience scripting/coding with one or more languages (such as Python, Ruby or Bash)