Security Engineer

Description

Mindera works with a variety of clients across the world to innovate and solve tough technical problems. Our security team enables Mindera to meet a variety of security standards and keep all Minders safe from the bad guys' hands.

This role primarily involves working within European time zones, requiring a significant overlap with team hours.

Expected travelling time (UK and USA): 0%-15%, varies according to project/client. You will be working with teams across different time zones and locations.

What you'll be up to

• Security monitoring and alerting
  . Evolve our monitoring and alerting systems across a variety of infrastructure, from our cloud environments and on-prem servers to end-user devices (we're currently using tools like Cortex XDR, ESET, Tenable);
• Cloud automation
  . Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to build, manage, and secure our AWS and GCP cloud environments. Automating security controls, compliance checks, and deployment pipelines;
• Incident response
  . Take part in, hone and perfect incident response procedures and reporting;
• Infrastructure hardening
  . Partner with infrastructure teams to proactively identify vulnerabilities, and guide them on hardening and verifying configurations;
• Security Enablement
  . Advise and answer queries from Minders, contribute to security guidelines, awareness and best practices. Work with development teams to integrate threat modeling into the software development lifecycle, identifying and mitigating potential security risks;

What we're looking for

• Experience
  . You know what you're doing and want to learn more. You have at least 3 years of hands-on experience in the field (security, DevOps, SRE);
• Security Architecture
  . You understand how to design secure and resilient systems from the ground up;
• Automation Mindset
  . You are strong proponent of cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code to achieve consistency and scale;
• Technical Skills.
• Familiar with cloud automation tools like OpenTOFU/Terraform and the AWS CDK;
• Knowledgeable in data collection and analysis (SIEM, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, etc.);
• Comfortable with AWS and its security services (GCP is a plus);
• Understand computer networking (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTPS, etc.);
• Good knowledge of Linux operating system;
• Basic knowledge of Windows and Mac operating systems;
• Good with scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.) and eager to learn about software engineering practices;
• Communication
  . You're a good communicator and are not afraid to ask. English is the main language used at Mindera, so you will be using it a lot, both spoken and in writing;
• Interpersonal skills
  . You will deal with many people with different backgrounds and skillsets and need to be able to support them effectively;
• Mindset
  . You can work autonomously and proactively in a distributed and dynamic organisation. You want to get things done, and done well;

Benefits

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Aveiro & Porto, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego & San Francisco, USA | Chennai & Bengaluru, India