Security Operations Engineer (Remote Europe)

Aiven is a hypergrowth Platform-as-a-Service company offering the best in open source and data technologies on multiple cloud platforms.

Headquartered in Helsinki with hubs in Berlin, Boston, Paris, Sydney, Singapore, Tokyo and Toronto, Aiven provides managed open source data technologies, such as PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka and M3, on all major clouds.

In 2022, we raised Series D funding of $210M to fuel our global expansion, the comprehensiveness of our platform and to focus on new programs in sustainability and diversity in tech.

Open source is at our core. We compensate our employees who contribute to open source outside of their daily work with Aiven and we have set up an Open Source Program Office (OSPO), to actively focus on giving back to the open source community.

Aiven’s mission is to enable customers to drive business results from open source, transforming their businesses. We love to operate our favorite tools at scale and empower our customers, in over 60 countries, to do great work.

We live by our values of courage, openness and ownership every day, and continually strive to ensure that every Aivener is empowered to contribute creatively and meaningfully, in a work environment where they have the tools to succeed and the comfort and support to be themselves.

The Job

We are looking for an experienced security operations engineer to work on our cloud operations platform with a specific focus on Information Security.

This person will design, implement and further develop security controls to protect Aiven’s production infrastructure. The controls include access and audit controls, data security and privacy, intrusion detection and prevention systems, vulnerability scanning, detection and remediation, among others. In addition, we would expect this role to share their expertise in guiding other developers and improving security awareness overall.

In this role you will contribute to the maturity of the SOC by participating in various SOC building projects, such as log source on-boarding, health checks, use case creation, process, and procedure creation, and improvement, as well as refinement of SIEM alerts to reduce false positives. You are expected to assist in security incident response, investigations and digital forensic-related tasks. You will be responsible for documenting and sharing knowledge acquired during your daily tasks.

Information Security is critical for success in our business and has a strong mandate from the company leadership. We hold ISO27001:2013 certification and are SOC2 compliant.

The job location can be any of AIVEN remote offices in Europe. - Finland, Berlin, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France and Switzerland

Requirements

• Interest and demonstrated experience in defining and developing Information Security software controls
• 5+ years of Information Security experience
• Excellent Linux systems administration and networking skills.
• Solid development or scripting skills in Python
• Understanding of the incident response process and enterprise information security fundamentals
• Knowledge of security operations analysis, detection and response tools including, but not limited to, SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR
• Experience in threat modeling as part of software development efforts
• Fluency in English, verbal and written

What we value:

• Relevant certificates like OSCP, CISSP or preparing for one
• You have discovered or fixed vulnerabilities in software or hardware
• Blue team experience
• Distributed systems knowledge
• Involvement in the InfoSec community
• Passion for open source

Benefits

• An agile working environment with short decision paths
• Compensation for open-source contributions made in your free time
• Flexible working hours, including remote work
• Choose the devices and tools that make you work the best
• Participation in employee stock option plan
• Office snacks, soft drinks, treats and fruits

Please note that benefits and perks may slightly differ depending on location.

You will be part of a highly-skilled, tight-knit team, making your contribution essential to what is becoming a great success story. If you are interested, please send us your application!