Senior IT Security Engineer - IAM, Cloud & DevSecOps Lead

Pasqal; Palaiseau; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pasqal is seeking a Senior IT Security Engineer to join its IT team in designing, operating, and improving security across workplace, identity, networks, SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud environments. You will work with the Information Security Manager to translate security requirements into pragmatic controls and secure configurations.

Your role emphasizes access controls, vulnerability management, incident response, and automation using Python, Terraform, and Ansible, supporting ISO/IEC 27001

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, IT security, or a closely related infrastructure engineering role.
• Strong foundations in IAM, endpoint security, system hardening, vulnerability management, security monitoring, audit logging, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience with identity technologies such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM, MFA, and RBAC.
• Solid understanding of application and DevSecOps security practices, including CI/CD security, vulnerability scanning, threat modeling, and software supply-chain security.
• Ability to translate risks and security requirements into pragmatic technical controls and propose secure alternatives without unnecessarily blocking operations or research.
• Ability to document controls, decisions, and technical activities so they remain measurable, traceable, and auditable.
• Active technology and cybersecurity watch, with the ability to assess emerging threats and solutions and turn relevant insights into continuous security improvements.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen identity, endpoint, network, and cloud security through access controls, hardening, segmentation, monitoring, and vulnerability management.
• Deploy and operate protection and detection capabilities such as EDR/XDR, SIEM, IDS/IPS, logging, and alerting, while managing security incidents and remediation.
• Automate and standardize security controls using Python/Bash, Terraform, Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps practices across IT and CI/CD environments.
• Support ISO/IEC 27001 certification by maintaining auditable technical controls and evidence, contributing to audits, and collaborating with IT, Engineering, Legal, HR, Procurement, and other teams to embed security by design.

Skills

IAM

Endpoint security

System hardening

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Audit logging

Incident response

CI/CD security

Threat modeling

Software supply chain

DevSecOps

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

Bash

Terraform

Ansible

IaC

Job description

Pasqal is seeking a Senior IT Security Engineer to join its IT team in designing, operating, and improving security across workplace, identity, networks, SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud environments. You will work with the Information Security Manager to translate security requirements into pragmatic controls and secure configurations.

Your role emphasizes access controls, vulnerability management, incident response, and automation using Python, Terraform, and Ansible, supporting ISO/IEC 27001