Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Trafigura; Calgary; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly technical security engineer to enhance AWS security and automate processes. This hands-on role requires coding expertise and a deep understanding of IT security principles. You'll collaborate closely with developers and DevOps teams to ensure security is integrated from the ground up. Your mission will be to drive improvements and educate teams on resolving security issues without hindering progress. If you're a self-starter with a passion for security and technology, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Deep specialist level in IT security principles and AWS security.
• Hands-on coding and automation of security processes are essential.

Responsibilities

• Secure AWS environments and manage day-to-day security operations.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate security into pipelines.

Skills

Core IT security principles

Ability to code

Automating security processes and systems

Code security and source code reviews

Networking

Basic cryptography experience

Tools

AWS

ECR

ECS

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Ansible

CDK

Gitlabs

Azure

Job description

Main Purpose:

This position involves driving improvements for a vital business enabler, necessitating collaboration with developers and DevOps teams. We're looking for self-starters who are highly motivated to make a positive impact on the global organization by finding solutions to security problems without letting security become a blocker.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

This is a highly technical role, hands-on, code-driven. It is not suitable for people who are primarily operational risk/audit focused or anyone who can’t code.

Following items are ‘must have’ at a deeply specialist level:

• Core IT security principles
• Securing AWS environments
• Ability to code
• Automating security processes and systems
• Code security - must have knowledge and experience of source code reviews.

Following items are ‘must have’ at a good level of competence:

• Code repositories/management
• AWS
• ECR
• ECS
• Networking
• Users’ management
• Secrets Manager
• CI/CD pipelines
• Python
• Ansible
• CDK
• Lean and understand new technologies.

Following items are acceptable at a basic level of competence:

• Basic cryptography experience.
• Java
• Gitlabs
• Azure

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for securing our AWS environments, you'll take charge of day-to-day security work while planning and implementing long-term strategies.
• Collaborating closely with DevOps teams, on ensuring the security of new systems from the start.
• You will work to seamlessly integrate security into both existing and new DevOps pipelines to drive enhancing the security of code produced by various teams and projects. You will guide and educate developers on how to fix critical security problems in their code.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

CISO, Security Engineering Leads, Head of Infrastructure, Lead Developers, DevOps teams. This role reports to the Head of Security Engineering.