Cybersecurity Engineer focused on threat monitoring and incident response for Verizon's network security. Collaborating on security architecture and vulnerability management across multiple locations.
About the role
- Senior Security Engineer specializing in platform security initiatives across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP for Preply. Leading security watch initiatives and partnering with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Own platform security across AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP, with a strong focus on detection, alerting, and incident response readiness
- Lead key platform security initiatives end-to-end, from problem definition through rollout and iteration
- Act as a strong technical voice in defining how platform security is designed, implemented, and operated at Preply
- Evolve our monitoring from “we have a SIEM” to a detection and response capability that is effective, trusted, and actionable
- Work hands-on with our current tooling, including Datadog as our SIEM, Okta as our primary IdP, and a range of SaaS platforms
- Drive cross-functional platform security initiatives from problem definition to production rollout, partnering with SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC
- Strengthen cloud and platform security across AWS and Kubernetes, with expanding scope in GCP, through practical guardrails, secure patterns, and automation
- Improve the robustness of access to internal infrastructure, including identity, privileged access, and auditability
- Improve security of Kubernetes deployments, including cluster and workload security, policy enforcement, and secure workload identity patterns
- Mature detection and response capability using Datadog
- Improve log coverage and data quality (cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, identity, and key SaaS)
- Build and tune actionable detections with clear severity, ownership, and expected frequency
- Reduce noise through correlation, deduplication, enrichment, and continuous tuning
- Establish repeatable triage workflows and clear escalation paths, being part of the Security on-call rotations
- Create investigation playbooks and runbooks so alerts can be handled consistently and quickly
- Partner with Data teams to improve monitoring for suspicious activity and sensitive access patterns, with an emphasis on practical, high-signal alerting
- Improve secrets management and reduce exposure risk across CI/CD and runtime
- Build security automation that makes the secure path the easy path for engineers
Requirements
- Strong experience securing cloud and platform environments, especially AWS and Kubernetes, and the ability to extend that security approach into GCP
- Hands-on experience driving and delivering technical security initiatives end-to-end in production environments
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, and comfort working with CI/CD and infrastructure as code
- Practical experience improving identity and access security, with strong familiarity with Okta event monitoring and identity-focused detection patterns
- Experience building or maturing security operations capability, especially turning SIEM inputs into reliable operational outcomes (triage, runbooks, tuning, and measurable improvement)
- Experience improving logging coverage and signal quality, and building detections that are actionable rather than noisy (experience with Datadog SIEM is a plus)
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence decisions across SRE, Data, Engineering, and GRC
- Business-oriented mindset and comfort making cost-benefit tradeoffs
- Strong communication skills. Minimum C1 English level.
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and partner effectively with SRE during incidents.
- Nice to have: Terraform and infrastructure as code at scale
- Nice to have: Jenkins hardening and CI/CD supply chain security controls
- Nice to have: Cloudflare security controls (WAF, bot mitigation, edge protections)
- Nice to have: Scripting or programming for automation and tooling
- Nice to have: Incident response experience in cloud-native environments (AWS and Kubernetes)
Benefits
- A generous monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
- Learning & Development budget and time off for your self-development
- A competitive financial package with equity and leave allowance
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