Security Engineer
Description For Security Engineer
Acquia is seeking a Security Engineer to join their team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for finding security flaws in custom application code and the ability to think like an attacker to misuse and break cloud services. The role involves enhancing the security of large sites and brands powered by Acquia's PaaS platform and SaaS services built on AWS EC2 instances.
Key responsibilities include:
- Being a Security Champion in an agile Security Engineering team
- Researching, specifying, and testing cloud hosting architectures
- Debugging complex distributed systems production issues
Required skills:
- 2-6 years of related experience
- Cloud security and compliance experience using AWS
- Strong software development background
- Understanding of Kubernetes
- Deep knowledge of LAMP stack
- Experience with Linux packages
- Networking expertise
- Holistic understanding of Internet and hosting
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Preferred qualifications:
- Software development using Python or Go
- Experience with threat modeling
- Configuration management skills
- Containerization experience
- Hands-on experience securing Kubernetes deployments
Acquia offers a remote work opportunity for this position in Costa Rica. They are committed to diversity and inclusion, considering all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Join Acquia to be part of a global company building for the future and enhancing the security of some of the world's largest websites and brands.
Responsibilities For Security Engineer
- Be a Security Champion in an agile Security Engineering team owning and operating the services you build
- Research, specify, and test cloud hosting architectures leveraging your web, database, and OS knowledge
- Debug the toughest distributed systems production issues
Requirements For Security Engineer
- 2-6 years of related experience
- Cloud security and compliance experience using AWS (e.g., Firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, DDOS prevention and PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.)
- Strong software development background using any general programming language
- Understanding of Kubernetes
- Passion for websites and website delivery architecture
- Deep, working knowledge of LAMP stack--OS, web server, and database systems (Linux, Apache, and MySQL preferred)
- Linux packages (e.g., Debian or RPM packages); RHEL and Ubuntu experience
- Networking (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, load balancing, HTTP caching, clustering, VPN, etc.)
- Holistic understanding of the Internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer
- Excellent organizational and communication skills, both verbal and written
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and drive results
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