At a Glance
- Tasks: Develop cloud-native security controls and enhance product security across multiple platforms.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking tech company focused on secure design and innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with a focus on collaboration and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on security in the cloud and work with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and programming languages like Go, Java, or Python.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We’re hiring experienced engineers with a security mindset to expand our tooling, add new guardrails, and partner with Aura teams on secure design.
Responsibilities
- Develop cloud-native controls in Azure, AWS and/or GCP to enforce the security baseline at scale, integrating with open-source and vendor tools as needed.
- Enhance product security along the software development lifecycle by creating paved roads and defining additional security and software excellence requirements for containerised services running on multiple managed Kubernetes clusters.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the Platform and Engineering teams by providing guidance on cloud and k8s services, secure infrastructure‑as‑code, modern secure AuthZ/AuthN techniques (SPIFFE) and secrets management solutions.
- Collaborate with other teams to define and implement Cloud/K8s native policies and procedures (Kyverno, Pod Security Standards).
- Conduct security assessments, audits and architecture reviews in order to introduce new cloud controls in the platform and make recommendations to improve the overall security posture.
- Support the incident detection and response process by maintaining cloud monitoring and alerting tooling and developing scripts needed for troubleshooting and resolution of incidents and security issues.
Ideal Candidate
- Experience with Containers, Kubernetes, Infrastructure‑as‑Code and programming languages such as Go, Java and/or Python.
- Proven experience in a security engineering role with hands‑on technical involvement, and exposure to decision making processes.
- An active interest and background in Cloud, Infrastructure and/or Network security.
- Proven track record with cloud‑native authentication mechanisms (OIDC, OAuth2), secrets management, admission controllers, service mesh, mTLS and cloud based IAM solutions.
- Familiarity with securing and hardening K8s clusters, containerised applications and Linux hosts.
- Demonstrated ability to architect cloud‑native applications including the design of APIs and microservices on containers.
Software Engineer - Platform Security employer: Neo4j Inc
At Neo4j, Inc., we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters innovation and collaboration within our dynamic Networking team in the heart of Westminster. Our employees enjoy a vibrant work culture that encourages professional growth through continuous learning opportunities and cross-functional teamwork, all while contributing to cutting-edge cloud networking solutions for Neo4j Aura. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking company that values your expertise and offers a unique chance to shape the future of technology in a thriving urban environment.
