Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Trafigura; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a highly technical individual for a specialized IT security role focused on securing AWS environments. The position demands strong coding abilities and collaboration with DevOps teams to enhance security practices across various projects while addressing critical security problems effectively. Ideal candidates will possess advanced knowledge of IT security principles and automation techniques.

Qualifications

• Must have specialist-level skills in core IT security principles and coding.
• Experience in automation and security processes is essential.
• Basic knowledge in cryptography is acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Secure AWS environments and manage day-to-day security tasks.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to ensure security in new systems from inception.
• Integrate security into development pipelines and educate developers on critical security issues.

Skills

Core IT security principles

Ability to code

Automating security processes and systems

Code security and source code reviews

Networking

Secrets Manager

Python

Ansible

Basic cryptography experience

Java

Gitlabs

Job description

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
• 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
• Networking
• Secrets Manager
• Python
• Ansible
• Lean and understand new technologies.

Following items are acceptable at a basic level of competence :

• Basic cryptography experience.
• Java
• Gitlabs

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.

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