Lead Cloud Security Engineer

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We are hiring a Lead Cloud Security Engineer with cloud linux and automation security experience. You can work 100% remotely in this role in Poland. Join our highly-collaborative team and help us secure the platform that drives many of the worlds most popular sites!

The WP Engine platform consists of thousands of digital assets that span multiple major cloud providers and we internally use hundreds of business applications. We have hundreds of employees in offices across North America Europe and Australia.

If you are passionate about security and you love to collaborate influence educate and negotiate with stakeholders then this is the role for you.

What Is Cool About This Job
Come join our highly-collaborative team and help us secure the platform that drives many of the worlds most popular sites!
WP Engine Security is the team who secures it all and we need your help.

Our Teams Non-Negotiable Expectations:

• The WP Engine platform is secure. Period.

• Customer data is protected from unauthorised access. Period.

• WP Engines security culture and practices enable the achievement of its business objectives. Period.

• We make this happen every day 24x7x365 and we have a lot of fun doing it - read on!

Your Expertise and Passion
You love to collaborate influence educate and negotiate with our internal partners. You give others the benefit of the doubt and avoid black-and-white thinking when it comes to risk. You are creative expressive and strive for solutions where everyone wins. You love to build strong partnerships across the company and seeing others succeed.

Required background:

• Solid understanding and demonstrated expertise managing cloud security controls and ensuring the security of cloud service offerings (IAM firewalls/ACL IDS/IPS WAF load balancers proxies Linux hosts storage serverless etc.) for at least one major cloud provider (GCP AWS or Azure)

• 5 years experience in a security engineering or related role (analyst consultant etc.)

• Experience securing Kubernetes and containersed workloads

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and associated security validations

• Experience working with API integrations and developing custom security automation (e.g. Python Golang Bash)

• Strong Linux security experience (hardening vulnerability management security alerting etc.)

• Experience handling security incidents and performing associated investigative activities in a Linux and cloud-based environment

• Advanced ability to communicate clearly and influence others as a domain expert for cloud security including the development of appropriate standards guidelines processes and procedures

Nice-to-Haves:

• Multi-cloud experience (GCP AWS Azure Heroku)

• Hands-on experience managing vendor- or internally-developed multi-cloud security controls

• Application security and code reviews experience

• Threat modelling experience

• Hands-on experience with Cloudflare WAF

• Familiarity with SQL and data analysis techniques

• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling

• Relevant security certifications

Perks and Benefits

• Company Stock Options (All employees have ownership in the company).

• Comprehensive Health Benefits (100% Employer-Paid Medical Dental and Vision).

• Pension Scheme with Employer Matching.

• Life Insurance and Income Protection (Fully Covered).

• Supplementary Maternity & Paternity Pay and Caregivers Leave.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Generous Vacation Policy.

• Home Office Stipend.

• Four Company Wellness Days annually.

• Continuous learning opportunities via LinkedIn Learning Workday Learning and a dedicated Career Growth Portal.

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We believe that compensation should be reflective of the impact you have within the organization relative to the market value of your role. The estimated base salary range for this position is as listed above. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Our salary ranges are determined by job role and responsibilities and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for salaries for the position nationwide. The actual base pay will vary based on various factors including job-related skills and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. Your talent acquisition partner can share more about the total rewards package at WP Engine including any additional total rewards components such as equity variable pay plans (if applicable) and benefits during the hiring process.