Junior Security Engineering Cohort
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Job Location:
Fort Worth, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Koddi
We are a global technology company with software and services that help top digital marketplaces effectively monetize their first-party audiences through industry-leading commerce media technology and strategy. Our enterprise platforms leverage first-party data to drive marketplace revenue and profit by improving user experience and target shoppers throughout the purchase path. Koddis platforms enable any advertiser any marketplace in any industry to increase awareness generate demand and drive revenue. We are committed to driving innovation and growth in the commerce media space.
As part of that commitment weve launched Koddi Academy a learning platform designed to provide expert knowledge competitive insights and practical strategies for thriving in this fast-growing industry. Explore our latest certification course to deepen your expertise and stay ahead in the evolving world of commerce media.
You can also sign up for our waiting list to be notified when new courses are released. Get started today atKoddi Academy.
About the Role
Koddi is excited to announce a Security Engineering training program geared toward recent graduates with Computer Science Cybersecurity Information Technology or related degrees as well as recent grads who have completed relevant bootcamps. The Koddi Impact Program is an intensive 8-week training program that provides hands-on experience across core areas of Security addition to technical training we provide instructor-led and self-paced leadership development opportunities.
Program Highlights
- Work with industry-leading experts to gain hands-on knowledge in cloud and applicationsecurity
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the Koddi business and the platforms that power it
- Learn security best practices across infrastructure applications and CI/CD pipelines
- Have the opportunity to share findings present ideas and contribute to security initiatives
- Participate in leadership workshops and soft skill development
- Receive executive mentorship and peer-to-peer support throughout the program
What Youll Do
- Monitor and triage security alerts from AWS GuardDuty Azure Defender for Cloud andDatadog - first-line review categorization and escalation during business hours
- Run vulnerability scans categorize findings and track remediation status in the teams ticketingsystem
- Review Terraform PRs for common security misconfigurations - open security groups missingencryption overly permissive IAM policies - against a defined checklist
- Contribute to security documentation - policies runbooks and procedure updates are a first-year ownership area
- Support CI/CD pipeline security - adding SAST checks and secret scanning steps (GitHubAdvanced Security Trivy) as directed
- Participate in incident response post-mortems as a contributor and note-taker building toward running investigations independently
- Shadow senior engineers on IAM policy reviews cloud security control implementation and threat modeling sessions
- Attend team ceremonies - daily standups biweekly retrospectives and Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions
What Youll Learn
Koddis security work spans dual-cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure) Kubernetes and activeCI/CD pipelines. During the program and your first year youll get hands-on with the teams real toolset:
- AWS GuardDuty and Security Hub - cloud-native threat detection finding triage andremediation workflows
- Azure Defender for Cloud - cloud security posture management on the Azure side of Koddisdual-cloud setup
- Datadog - Koddis primary observability platform used for security log analysis alerting anddashboard-driven monitoring
- Trivy and container scanning - image vulnerability scanning integrated into EKS and AKSCI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Advanced Security and SAST - secret scanning code scanning and dependency review integrated into GitHub Actions pipelines
- Terraform security review - reading and reviewing IaC for security misconfigurations; theteam uses Terraform extensively across networking compute and identity modules
- IAM fundamentals in practice - AWS IAM policies Azure RBAC and service accountlifecycle management on live infrastructure
What Youll Bring
Required
- Graduating by May 2026 with a BS/MS in Computer Science Information Technology Cyber-security or a related field - OR - completion of a rigorous bootcamp with demonstrated security or systems coursework
- Available onsite in Fort Worth TX Monday-Friday during the 8-week cohort and full-time after
- Foundational understanding of the CIA triad OWASP Top 10 and common vulnerability classes - not just terminology but the ability to explain why a misconfigured IAM policy or exposed secret creates real risk
- Basic IAM literacy - you can explain the difference between authentication and authorization what a role vs. a policy is and why least-privilege matters
- At least one scripting language at a functional level (Python or Bash) - not just familiarity but the ability to write a simple script to parse logs or automate a check
- Git/version control fluency - branching PRs and commit history review are part of the IaC security workflow
- Linux/Unix command-line comfort - file permissions process inspection log tailing; security work happens at the command line
Nice to Have
- AWS security exposure (GuardDuty Security Hub IAM policies in practice) - even coursework or free-tier labs count
- SIEM tool experience - Datadog Splunk CloudWatch Logs Insights or similar
- SAST DAST or container scanning exposure
- CTF participation or bug bounty activity with documented findings or write ups
- Security certifications in progress or completed (CompTIA Security AWS Security Specialty CEH)
- Azure security exposure (Defender for Cloud Azure RBAC Entra ID)
Required Experience:
Junior IC
