Infrastructure & Security Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LuoPay is building fintech infrastructure for cross-border payments in Africa. We seek an Infrastructure & Security Lead to evolve cloud security controls and CI/CD pipelines, shaping a scalable foundation with regulators and partners in mind.

You will work closely with the CTO to implement an extensive security program across GCP, tooling, and compliance, while mentoring a small team of engineers in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of tech engineering experience.
• Strong experience building cloud infrastructure and writing Terraform code.
• Experience with GCP is highly valued.
• Strong appetite for security focused technical work.
• Broad technical curiosity across IAM, networking, governance, CI/CD, observability, APIs and web security.
• Experience in small, fast-paced teams.
• Experience in regulated industries and ISO27001/SOC2 compliance is appreciated.

Responsibilities

• Analyze infrastructure and map security risks.
• Write design documents for infrastructure targets.
• Use Terraform to evolve GCP infrastructure.
• Apply GCP security tooling to protect networks, services and databases.
• Automate security testing in delivery pipelines.
• Research and onboard tools to improve reliability and security posture.
• Collaborate with CTO to implement security and compliance framework.

Skills

10+ years experience

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

GCP

Security engineering

Regulated industry

ISO27001 / SOC2 awareness

Tools

Terraform tooling

Job description

About the company

the company is one of the fastest-growing FX and cross-border payments companies in Africa. We help African businesses pay their international suppliers faster, more transparently, and more competitively than traditional solutions.

After becoming a leading player in a few markets in record time, we are looking to grow our engineering team and keep expanding the financial infrastructure for FX and cross-border payments in Africa.

Role overview

As Infrastructure & Security Lead, you will join a small team of experienced engineers and be responsible for evolving our cloud infrastructure and its security controls. You will work directly with our CTO to build the foundations that keep LuoPay secure, reliable, and compliant as we scale. The scope covers our GCP infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, security tooling, as well as the security and compliance program that regulators, partners, and customers depend on.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze our infrastructure and map security risks.
• Write clear, concise design documents to share infrastructure targets with the rest of the engineering team.
• Use Terraform to evolve our GCP infrastructure.
• Use GCP-native security tooling to protect our network, services and databases within GCP.
• Automate security testing within our delivery pipelines.
• Research and onboard new tools to improve our reliability and security posture.
• Work alongside our CTO to implement our security and compliance framework.

What we are looking for

• 10+ years of tech engineering experience
• Strong experience building cloud infrastructure, managing cloud security and writing Terraform code.
• Experience within GCP is highly appreciated, though we value fundamental engineering skills over any knowledge of a specific tech stack.
• Strong appetite for security focused technical work.
• Wide technical curiosity and willingness to contribute to many different parts of our stack: IAM, networking, governance, CI/CD, observability, APIs and web security.
• Previous experience working in small, fast-paced teams.
• Previous experience building cloud infrastructure within a regulated industry is appreciated.
• Previous experience participating in the implementation of ISO27001 or SOC2 compliance is appreciated.

Why join us

• Play a key role in building the fintech infrastructure that unlocks international payments for businesses in Africa.
• Work alongside a small team of senior engineers within a fast-paced, growing startup.
• Be exposed to an an usual breadth of technical responsibilities, with room to grow.
• Be given the room and support to build a state-of-the art security program in a regulated industry.
• Continuously experiment with LLMs to expand the boundaries of your impact.