Cyber Security Engineer
Posted 11 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Cyber Security Engineer / DevSecOps”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science, Software Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
About The Role
This Senior Cyber Security Engineer / DevSecOps role is a highly collaborative position designed for a security professional who can seamlessly bridge the gap between offensive exploitation and defensive engineering. Instead of sitting in a silo, you will be deeply embedded within the product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to champion security architecture from the ground up.
What You'll Do
• Work closely with the product and engineering teams to review new features and suggest new features that improve security.
• Drive S-SDLC in our cycles and review security acceptance criteria and threat modeling.
• Guide and train the team to cover security checks and security best practices.
• Perform pre-deployment and post-deployment security penetration tests.
• Plan and execute regular web, mobile, and cloud security assessments and pen tests.
• Work closely with the Infrastructure teams to identify security issues through red teaming activities.
• Define, implement, and monitor infrastructure security measures.
• Contribute to the security roadmap & backlog.
• Assess security tools and integrate tools as needed.
• Incident Response & Research.
• Follow new security news, trends, tools, and incidents and drive needed changes.
• Support in managing our Bug-bounty program and security channels.
• Conduct vulnerability research against company assets.
• Work on understanding and improving our security logging and monitoring solutions.
• Coordinate company-wide response to security incidents till remediation.
• Vulnerability management for production/staging environments.
• Actively mentor members of the security team.
What You'll Need
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum 5 years of experience performing application and/or infrastructure penetration testing experience above and beyond running automated tools.
• Highly experienced in performing security code reviews; Python experience is a plus.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless / lambda as a plus.
• Solid understanding of software development principles, software testing methodologies, and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Hands-on experience implementing security policies in various environments (servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization, systems monitoring, and management).