Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Summary

Join Parity, a leading core blockchain infrastructure company, as a DevSecOps Engineer. This crucial remote role involves advising infrastructure and IT teams on security, automating security controls, and hardening systems. You will perform penetration testing, develop security standards, and mentor team members. The ideal candidate possesses experience with Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and various cloud platforms. Parity offers a competitive compensation package, a remote-first work environment, and opportunities for professional development within the Web3 ecosystem.

Requirements

• Demonstrate a focus on outcomes (rather than activities) and outcome based delivery
• Demonstrate ability to partner with multiple teams in order to (including but not only tackle issues, clarifying requirements, communicating and convincing stakeholders, etc..)
• Be comfortable with a Linux-based tech stack (managed VMs, SSH, VPNs, firewalls,)
• Have experience with Kubernetes (incl. managed), Terraform, Ansible, Github, Gitlab,, ArgoCD, Image registries
• Have experience with various cloud platforms including, Google Cloud, non-managed providers

Responsibilities

• Advise Infra Engineering and IT teams on security topics and support their work from the security standpoint — maintaining things practical using a risk-based approach with a focus on following areas
• Automate security controls, security hardening of the developer and IaC processes (building, testing, release), supply chain security (part of the build process), related metrics and monitoring/audits
• Handle Network, Vm & container image and system hardening, Cloud issues and misconfigurations
• Address Endpoint Security, Infrastructure Identity and Access Management, SIEM, Threat intelligence, common misconfigs (DNS, email, networking, etc.)
• Organize and perform penetration testing of our infrastructure, and collaborate with external parties on those tests
• Pick tools, methods and approaches to maintain and improve the security stance of the company. (And we have a strong preference towards FOSS tooling when possible)
• Write and enable adoption of company-wide security standards and guidelines, as well as implementing tools and automation to enable their deployment
• Mentor other team members on all matters related to security and IT and infrastructure engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Have an understanding of blockchain tech and associated tooling (wallets, keys, RPC nodes and indexers etc.)
• Live within 2 hours of UTC+0

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
• ���Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
• Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
• Team and company-wide retreats
• Work laptop