Backbase

cloud security engineer for banking SaaS

In short

Senior cloud security engineer role at Backbase, a company providing a SaaS banking platform, working onsite in the Netherlands. The role covers threat modeling, vulnerability testing, incident handling, and maintaining cloud security in Azure environments, with a growth path to Principal Cloud Security Engineer. Requires at least 3 years of relevant experience, strong knowledge of Zero-Trust architecture, Kubernetes/Helm, SaaS monitoring tools (Datadog, Azure Monitoring, or AWS APM), and fluent English.

About
Backbase provides a SaaS platform for banking.
Responsibilities
•Represent Security in the team by running threat modeling sessions, performing vulnerability tests, conducting risk analyses and security assessments, and supporting incident handling
•Help realize a state-of-the-art monitoring and alerting system
•Implement and maintain cloud security best practices in Azure environments
•Ensure compliance with relevant security standards and regulations; conduct regular security assessments and risk analyses to identify and mitigate potential threats
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the overall security posture
•Mentor junior team members and contribute to the development of the team's skills and capabilities
•Propose and support security initiatives, work with different teams at various levels to implement them, and participate in the Security Guild
•Architect visibility, detection, mitigation, and observability capabilities
•Drive cross-team initiatives and take on greater responsibility for the product's overall security roadmap as a potential growth path to Principal Cloud Security Engineer
Requirements
•Deep understanding of cloud security infrastructure, cloud-native technologies, and desired state configuration
•Experience with Zero-Trust architecture, defensible security architecture, security processes, incident management, vulnerability management, threat modeling, logging and monitoring (SIEM), and controls and requirements from standards such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2
•Up-to-date knowledge of cloud security tools and practices
•Automation-first mindset and a goal of making processes predictable and automated
•Proficiency with Helm Charts and Kubernetes, and familiarity with incident response platforms such as PagerDuty
•Significant experience with comprehensive monitoring of SaaS platforms using Datadog, Azure Monitoring, or AWS APM
•Willingness to fix issues rather than only report them
•Excellent communication skills in English
•Minimum 3 years in a similar role running workloads on public cloud
Nice to have
•Azure Administrator or Azure Solution Architect certification
Conditions
No conditions stated in the vacancy.

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