Our client is a fast pace Silicon Valley-based startup with over $100 million in venture financing and is currently experiencing exceptional growth due to both industry growth and covid19. They are in the business of replacing obsolete equipment with technology that's smart, secure, and easy to manage in the cloud. They are now seeking to hire an Infrastructure Security Engineer to be part of the new exciting security team reporting to the CISO directly.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the security baked into our cloud infrastructure for our applications and customer data
• Partner closely with Infrastructure engineering to test and improve the security of our client's core products and exceed customers' expectations
• Explore innovative solutions to enable Verkada business instead of “Security says No”
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on goals, priorities and process
• Set up security tooling to ensure cloud security's best practices
• Contribute changes to production security infrastructure (e.g., configure GuardDuty or AWS Config for example)
• Improve the security of our Kubernetes cluster and containers
• Build a cloud security detection and response program leveraging automation, secure defaults to enforce security policy and detect threats
• Triage and recommend solutions for security bugs from tools, third party assessments and bug bounties
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader security program
• Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
• Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
• 5+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant
• Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies;
• Coding ability. You will sometimes write production Python/Go code, security peer-review code, build proofs of concept or implement automation scripts
• Excellent collaborative skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Experience with most of the following: AWS security tools (GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail), Terraform, Kubernetes, Containers, Open Policy Agent, Secrets Management, SIEM

Our client is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We and our client do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, and encourage all qualified applicants to apply