Senior Security Engineer at Wattpad implementing security controls for AWS cloud systems. Collaborating with engineering teams to ensure data protection and secure software practices.
Responsibilities
Designing, implementing, and monitoring security controls in our AWS cloud infrastructure to balance protection with scalability.
Influencing the technical direction of the Engineering & Data department by introducing secure development practices and threat modeling.
Acting as a force multiplier by building security automation workflows and "guardrails" that allow teams to ship code safely and quickly.
Directly solving complex security challenges, including incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation of vulnerabilities.
Assisting teams in implementing access management and compliance controls, compliance (SOC 2/ISO 27001), and risk governance.
Building and maturing our application security program, partnering with engineering teams to triage findings from our Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
Collaborating with engineers on implementing security best practices to help raise the security bar across the organization.
Requirements
5+ years of work experience in SecOps, Cloud Security, DevSecOps, or similar security-focused role
AWS security expertise: Hands-on experience with Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, AWS WAF, and IAM policy management
SIEM experience highly desirable: Datadog, Splunk, or similar platforms (query development, alert tuning, incident investigation)
Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code security: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
Experience with containers and Kubernetes (EKS preferred) including security hardening
Strong scripting and automation skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell
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