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About the role

  • Senior IT Security Engineer at NEAR Foundation leading information security program and compliance initiatives. Partnering with IT teams for secure architectural design and risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the information security program across NEAR Foundation
  • Drive SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 readiness and ongoing compliance at NEAR AI
  • Support the needs and operation of the NEAR Security Committee (NSC)
  • Run logging, monitoring, and alerting; lead investigation and response for security incidents
  • Run vulnerability management, third-party risk reviews, and security awareness across the organization
  • Own the security architecture and hardening of our identity, access, and endpoint stack
  • Engineer security and compliance automation across our SaaS estate
  • Be the senior technical escalation point for complex security issues
  • Lead security tooling rollouts and security vendor selection
  • Help maintain a secure cloud footprint (AWS / GCP) and maintain the security policy library

Requirements

  • 7+ years in information security with strong IT engineering depth
  • Demonstrated ownership of SOC II Type 2 and ideally ISO 27001 readiness and audit cycles
  • Deep hands-on experience across IAM, endpoint, and at least one cloud (AWS or GCP)
  • Comfortable scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) and automating IT and security workflows
  • Practical experience with SSO/IdP platforms (Okta, Google Workspace, Entra), MDM/EDR tooling, and modern logging/SIEM stacks
  • Strong written communication — clear policy, clean post-incident reviews, credible audit narratives
  • Pragmatic about risk and process; calm under pressure; bias to action
  • Crypto or AI/ML exposure is a plus

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Remote-first work environment
  • Professional development and learning budget

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonGo

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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