Senior Product Security Engineer Automation (EMEA)

The Red Hat Product Security (PSRD) team is looking for an experienced Senior Product Security Engineer to join us remotely or onsite in EMEA this role you will be a key designer and engineer focused on building enhancing and expanding our security automation capabilities. You will develop the critical tooling that our teams use to perform security scanning (like SAST and DAST) verify business processes and proactively identify risks across Red Hats entire portfolio and software supply chain. If you are passionate about building secure scalable automation and want to make a significant impact on the open source software that powers the enterprise this role is for you.

Our role is open as onsite/hybrid in our offices or remote in Poland Portugal Czech Republic Ireland.

What you will do

• Lead the design development and maintenance of automation for critical product security processes.
• Expand the capabilities of our existing scanning infrastructure (SAST DAST etc.) to cover new products new languages and emerging types of risk.
• Build and integrate security tools into our CI/CD pipelines to provide continuous feedback to engineers and proactively mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with other Product Security engineers and product teams to understand their needs and build robust scalable solutions that make their work more efficient and effective.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on security automation and tooling guiding other engineers and helping to shape our technical strategy.
• Proactively identify new opportunities for automation to reduce manual effort improve security coverage and secure our software supply chain.
• Work with upstream open source communities to contribute to and leverage new and existing security tooling.
• Document the automation you build to ensure it is maintainable well-understood and usable by the wider team.

What you will bring

• Practical experience in building and maintaining automation preferably for security functions.
• A solid understanding of one or more scripting or programming languages (like Python Go or Bash).
• Familiarity with CI/CD principles and tools. Experience with Tekton or Ansible Automation Platform is a significant plus.
• A good understanding of Linux fundamentals and how to operate in a Linux-based environment.
• Knowledge of container technologies (like Docker Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift) and their security considerations.
• Familiarity with security scanning tools and concepts (SAST DAST vulnerability scanning etc.).
• Experience using AI-powered tools (like code assistants or analysis tools) to improve your workflow is a plus.
• The ability to work independently manage your own tasks and provide technical guidance to more junior team members.

About Red Hat

Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.

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