Security Engineer

Description

At Onfido, we’re solving online trust at a global scale.

Millions of day-to-day interactions take place digitally: our mission is to help people and businesses trust each other, even when they’ve never met face-to-face. Today, we work with global customers, including JustGiving, Revolut, BlaBlaCar and Couchsurfing to help them verify users, investors, drivers and guests across 195 countries.

But we’re just getting started! So far, we’ve been a pioneer in using deep learning to verify identity and reduce fraud. Our goal is to apply cutting-edge research to build powerful, simple products to drive trust, inclusion and safety in online business, collaboration and sharing.

THE ROLE:

Ever thought about using technologies like AWS Lambda to make a fully virtualized and highly scalable cloud environment react to threats autonomously? Read on.

We’re looking for a Security Engineer to support us with protecting our clients data and our intellectual property. We work in a fast paced agile environment where we are constantly learning and exchanging ideas with and across teams.

This is a unique opportunity for someone to be in the driving seat in our security team and closely with our Director of Cyber Security to shape our cyber security vision and roadmap, ensuring that the right security measures and policies are put in place.

As a Security Engineer, the role will involve the following:

• Automation - automate generic security analysis and incident detection and handling tasks using your scripting and programming skills
• Security frameworks and standards - support the evaluation, design, development and implementation of security frameworks/standards and tooling across the whole organization
• Accreditation - Support our compliance programs (ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, GDPR, ...)
• Security assessment and testing - perform all kinds of security assessments and penetration tests against our infrastructure, applications and office environments
• Design and develop in-house security tools and frameworks and enhance existing solutions
• Evangelism - work very closely with our technology and business teams in order to strengthen their security awareness and stay up-to-date with internal projects and strategies

Requirements

• Hands on experience as a Security Engineer/Security Consultant
• Experienced with security assessments and penetration tests of traditional as well as cloud based / fully virtualized infrastructures and web based services (HTTP/S + Websockets)
• Experienced with secure coding practices and secure development processes
• Familiarity with designing and securing cloud environments; preferably in AWS
• Familiarity with securing containerized environments
• Experience with scripting (Bash, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Go) for the purpose of automating security related tasks

Nice-to-haves:

• Good working knowledge of the tools in our dev stack, including Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Jenkins and Git.
• Experience with containerization and related security aspects
• Experience with security and compliance standards like ISO 27001, PCI-DSS and security best practices like OWASP and CIS Benchmarks

Values and behaviours

• Succeed Together - Share skills, ideas and honest feedback. Be excellent to each other.
• Take Pride - Deliver world-class quality and be an ambassador.
• Learn Things, Share Them - Seek out knowledge. Then, take what you learn and teach it to others.
• Find a Better Way - Fix what's broken and make what works even better.
• Create Customer Buzz - Craft an experience that customers rave about.

To be a great fit at Onfido, we look for individuals who share our values. We have over 35 nationalities in our growing team, making this an exciting and culturally enriching place to work. Check out the team and Life at Onfido!

Benefits

We're committed to making Onfido a fantastic place to work, so we go to great lengths to give you what you need to succeed. You will receive:

• Share options
• Health Cash Plan subsiding medical expenses (e.g. dental, optical, doctors plus many others)
• Sanctus mental health coaching
• Flexible working
• Subsidised gym membership or home cleaning (50% up to €65 per month)
• Unlimited budget for any software or books you need
• Snacks, juices and fresh fruit every day
• Monthly company dinners
• Quarterly socials (e.g. cookery classes, go-karting and private cinema trips)
• Open and transparent culture - we meet for a Friday afternoon forum (OnFriday) to engage peers informally over drinks.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Onfido. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.