Senior Security Engineer

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint were looking for passionate people to join our mission. If youre ready to help the worlds best companies optimize their digital applications we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your Opportunity

New Relic is hiring a senior security engineer to join our Information Security Team! The Infrastructure Assurance team is responsible for safeguarding New Relics global infrastructure (including servers networks workstations and cloud). In this role you will collaborate with diverse teams across the organization developing and improving tools to help improve their understanding of security risks. Youll play a critical role in safeguarding New Relics global infrastructure focusing on proactive security controls pragmatic threat assessments and collaboration with teams to prioritize security work.

What Youll Do

• Operates as one of the senior technical figures for the Infrastructure Assurance team and partner teams in the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
• Educate product/platform engineers on effectively applying security best practices related to multi-cloud kubernetes and internal applications and services.
• Provide security design guidance and perform security reviews for New Relic infrastructure and services ensuring a secure by design model.
• Establish yourself as a security authority with a deep understanding of engineering and non-engineering team roadmap and priorities.
• Mentor/coach and remove technical roadblocks as needed for junior team members.
• Collaborate and cultivate relationships with IT Compliance Product Legal & Privacy and non-engineering teams on multi-functional work streams and projects.

Your Qualifications

Must-have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical education and experience.
• 4 years of cloud or infrastructure engineering experience.
• 2 years of infrastructure security experience.
• Experience securing infrastructure and services built in a multi-account AWS environment
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management (roles policies SCP).
• Experience performing security reviews and risk assessments in SaaS- and cloud-based environments.
• Understanding of modern DevOps engineering and containerization.
• Working understanding of common/best practice network security controls authentication and security protocols.
• Working understanding of SOC 2 FedRAMP CIS Critical 18 and PCI DSS frameworks.
• Capability to effectively communicate with individuals of varying levels of technical expertise.
• Ability to lead cross company objectives work autonomously navigate ambiguous situations and identify innovative solutions.
• Ability to draft/maintain clear and concise documentation.

Nice-to-have:

• 2 years working with modern container technologies; Kubernetes is a bonus.
• Ability to explain and advise on secure design and implementation of complex security problems including the ability to dive into secure design with engineers.
• Experience performing threat modeling.
• Experience securing infrastructure and services built in Azure or Google Cloud
• Writing in and understanding an infrastructure orchestration solution such as Terraform Chef or Ansible.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python Ruby and/or Go.
• Proven capability to improve various processes via automation.
• An understanding of tradeoffs between reliability and security in a SaaS organization.

Fostering a diverse welcoming and inclusive environment is important to us. We work hard to make everyone feel comfortable bringing their best most authentic selves to work every day. We celebrate our talented Relics different backgrounds and abilities and recognize the different paths they took to reach us including nontraditional ones. Their experiences and perspectives inspire us to make our products and company the best they can be. Were looking for people who feel connected to our mission and values not just candidates who check off all the boxes.

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Our hiring process

In compliance with applicable law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work and to complete employment eligibility verification. Note: Our stewardship of the data of thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

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