Lead Cloud Security Engineer

Trafigura

London

7 months ago

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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 enhance 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

Reporting Structure:

Reports to Head of Security Engineering

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce! We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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