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 security engineer to join our Information Security Team! Join the Infrastructure Assurance team within New Relics Information Security organization where you will play a critical role in safeguarding the global infrastructureincluding servers networks workstations and cloud environmentsthat serves as the foundation for all New Relic products and services.

This is a hands-on opportunity where you will focus on proactive security controls performing pragmatic threat assessments and scaling our foundational security posture. This involves close collaboration with various teams across New Relic to help them understand and appropriately prioritize security work. The New Relic information security organization that values building strong relationships with those teams as a more effective approach to security than simply dictating policies. We value your character and practical experience over certifications. While a deep background in security is helpful it is not a prerequisite. We are looking for candidates who can clearly demonstrate multi-cloud systems management architectural design and automation skills and who are eager to embed security as an integral component of the value New Relic provides to its customers.

What youll do

• Deliver security requirements to IT and product engineering teams for securing their critical infrastructure and systems.
• Execute and maintain critical security assurance runbooks and decision matrices with a key focus on full documentation and improving clarity.
• Collaborate on multi-functional work streams and projects with IT Compliance and Product Legal & Privacy teams.
• Drive improvement in partner team engagements by documenting collaboration processes for critical cross-functional review types.
• Manage assigned security reviews to achieve an efficient end-to-end cycle time that adheres to the lifecycle of each review type.

This role requires

Must-have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical education and experience.
• 2 years of cloud or IT infrastructure engineering experience.
• 1 years of experience in a security-focused role within cloud or IT engineering
• Proven familiarity with AWS (or other cloud provider) foundational security principles
• Working knowledge of security fundamentals for for corporate software-as-a-service and identity systems
• Basic comprehension of modern DevOps practices and techniques
• Basic understanding of risk management.
• Strong communication habits with a proven ability to provide timely updates and effective escalations
• Demonstrated ability to produce clear and professional technical documentation

Bonus points if you have

• 1 years working with modern container technologies with Kubernetes in particular
• Experience supply risk-based security guidance to system owners and stakeholders
• Hands-on knowledge of securing systems within an additional cloud provider (such as Google or Azure)
• Experience implementing controls within a major identity provider (Okta or Azure Entra)
• Familiarity mobile device management (MDM) platforms such as Jamf or Intune
• Experience managing and securing workplace collaboration systems such as Salesforce Google Workspace or Exchange
• Prior experience supporting IT system audit frameworks such as SOC 2 ISO 27001 or FedRAMP

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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We believe in empowering all Relics to achieve professional and business success through a flexible workforce model. This model allows us to work in a variety of workplaces that best support our success including fully office-based fully remote or hybrid.

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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