Information Security Engineer – Hybrid Infrastructure Hardening and Automation
Remote
Posted 1 month ago
This senior, fully remote Information Security Engineer position requires at least 5 years of relevant experience to tackle non-trivial security challenges across a hybrid infrastructure. The role demands proactive design, implementation, and maintenance of secure configurations for all key operational areas.
- Location: Remote (Work remotely from anywhere in the world).
- Experience: At least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Focus: Designing and managing secure network configurations, system hardening across multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS), securing containerized (Kubernetes, Docker) and public cloud environments, and automating security processes.
What You’ll Be Doing: Implementation and Hardening
The engineer provides end-to-end security engineering, from network design to tool management and hardening procedures.
- Secure Design & Management: Design and manage the implementation of secure network configurations for server infrastructure, public cloud, and containerized environments.
- System Hardening: Perform security validation and implement hardening processes across various systems, ensuring IT staff are guided on best practices.
- Tool Management: Maintain current security tools and manage the implementation and integration of new ones. This includes systems like EDR, VM, MDM, and PAM.
- Proactive Solutions: Provide proactive solutions to non-trivial security challenges.
Required Technical Expertise
The ideal candidate possesses deep, practical experience across modern network and platform security domains.
- Networking Expertise: Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing) and practical experience securing network infrastructure and configurations (firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS).
- Platform Hardening: Expertise in hardening of operating systems and network services across different platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS).
- Container & Cloud Security: Practical experience securing containerized environments and orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker), as well as practical experience securing public clouds.
- Security Tooling: Experience in implementing, maintaining, and configuring security tools (EDR, VM, MDM, PAM systems, etc.).
- Automation: Proficient in scripting and automation (Python, Bash).
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience in implementing Zero Trust architecture.
- Hands-on experience with network penetration testing.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Ansible and Terraform.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT & Cybersecurity |