Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Enable Flexport to become the most trusted company in global trade.

The opportunity: 

Flexport is looking for a Staff Security Engineer to help Flexport establish itself as the most trusted company in the global trade ecosystem.  As a Staff Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, you will be responsible for enabling visibility across our cloud environments, deploying and managing commercial security tools, building integrations, automation and custom tools to bridge gaps, as well as building security guardrails into our cloud infrastructure deployment pipelines. 

You will:

• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to develop, deploy, and maintain secure cloud architectures aligned to internal standards and current best practices. 
• Implement monitoring capabilities that enable continuous asset inventory and posture assessment across cloud operating environments.
• Deploy and manage secret and privileged access management technologies to enable secure access, application of least privilege principle and accountability for change/configuration management.
• Design and implement Identity and Access Management capabilities in close partnership with our Engineering and Product teams.
• Implement and administer security technology controls (WAF, RASP, DDoS, anti-malware, forensics, IDS, DLP, CSPM) across cloud infrastructure.
• Identify areas of improvement and implement automation where possible.
• Integrate cloud applications, infrastructure, and security tools with SIEM/SOAR platforms that consolidate visibility across the environment for continuous monitoring, incident detection, analysis, forensic artifact collection, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Assess data flows across the cloud environment to identify process weaknesses or technology gaps that could result in privacy or security breaches.
• Participate in security incident response, red team and penetration testing exercises, bug bounty response, and audit support.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and newsletter items for communicating with management and teams across the company.
• Create a culture of transparency, information sharing, and collaboration through the development of excellent documentation, mentoring of junior team members, and living Flexport’s values.
• Act as a mentor for more junior team members and continuously share knowledge to help others grow in the field. 

You should have:  

• Strong interpersonal and communications skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of progressive security experience in a fast-paced global environment.
• 4+ years of experience with major IaaS and PaaS cloud platforms and best practices for monitoring and securing such environments.
• Experience with container technologies, and software-oriented architecture.
• Experience with DevOps and SaaS environments.
• Experience with IaC implementation and challenges.
• Experience with IAM, secrets and privileged access management, and PKI.
• Experience with SIEM and security orchestration technologies.
• Experience with cloud environments AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience automating security tasks in languages such as Go, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby.
• Excellence in problem-solving, strategic thinking, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• A "compliance first" attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry.

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