SecOps Security Engineer (Staff-level, L6)

Job summary

Responsibilities

As our team and customer base grow, we need to make sure our security efforts scale accordingly. For that, we are looking to expand the Synthesia Infosec team by onboarding an additional Security Engineer (L6)! You will report to the Head of Security and work within the Security Operations team.

• Build and own deeply technical security improvements across our Cloud Infrastructure(s) and associated territory (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD), including shipping production…
• Design, implement, and iterate on detection and response capabilities (SIEM, EDR/MDR, cloud-native detections, CNAPP) with an engineer’s bias for automation, reliability, and…
• Hunt, investigate, and respond to security alerts and suspicious activity end-to-end (triage → containment → eradication → recovery → learnings), including writing tooling and…
• Build internal security tooling and automations (IaC, scripts, integrations) that reduce toil and raise the security bar by default.

What they're looking for

• You’re a deeply technical security engineer with a builder/hacker mindset, able to go from idea → prototype → production and comfortable making changes directly in Cloud Infra /…
• You have 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience, ideally in a cloud-first SaaS environment.
• Have worked in a fast-growing startup, scale-up and/or SaaS company
• Cloud security engineering in AWS and/or GCP, with the ability to implement improvements hands-on (IAM, networking, compute, storage, logging).
• Kubernetes security (cluster hardening, workload isolation, runtime security, policy controls) and container ecosystems.

Tech stack

• AWS
• GCP
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform