Lead Security Engineer: Cloud, AI & Incident Response

apotea.se; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Apotea is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to define and evolve security across AWS, data platforms, and e‑commerce. You will lead incident response, shape guardrails, and empower engineers to build securely with AI assistants.

This on‑site role in Stockholm combines strategic leadership with hands‑on security engineering, DevSecOps, and compliance work to protect customer trust and ensure privacy by design.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a security engineer and main security expert.
• Proven AWS security expertise: IAM, networking, serverless, encryption, monitoring.
• Background in designing secure, scalable cloud-native systems.
• Hands-on with SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, secrets management.
• Deep knowledge in DevSecOps and IaC (CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Programming skills: Go, TypeScript, .NET, Python.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve security strategy across cloud, apps, and infrastructure.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into sustainable security practices.
• Define guardrails, best practices, and reference implementations for teams.
• Design and implement secure AWS serverless and data-driven systems.
• Lead IAM practices, enforcing least-privilege and zero-trust.
• Oversee vulnerability management, pentesting, and patching.
• Ensure secure DevSecOps pipelines and IaC security.
• Build and operate monitoring, detection, and alerting systems (SIEM, EDR, GuardDuty).
• Lead incident response: investigate, contain, and recover from security events.
• Maintain and test playbooks for emerging threats.
• Ensure GDPR and industry-regulatory compliance; train teams.

Skills

Security engineering

AWS security

IAM & zero-trust

DevSecOps

Cloud-native design

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Vulnerability scanners

Secrets management

CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Apotea is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to define and evolve security across AWS, data platforms, and e‑commerce. You will lead incident response, shape guardrails, and empower engineers to build securely with AI assistants.

This on‑site role in Stockholm combines strategic leadership with hands‑on security engineering, DevSecOps, and compliance work to protect customer trust and ensure privacy by design.