Principal Security Engineer

What you'll do

• Drive technical decisions to develop platform and security engineering roadmap
• Help develop and implement the technical security strategy for the organisation
• Act as a technical security expert within the business, providing advice and guidance to other team members and the wider business
• Lead the development of robust and secure CI/CD pipelines
• Lead the development of security tooling
• Plan and implement solutions for backup and recovery, high availability, key management, and other strategic initiatives
• Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained security observability and actionable alerting
• Collaborate with external pen-testing company to evaluate the security for all aspects of our AWS implementation and external resources @Ben Freke to add more
• Work with our delivery teams to ensure our services adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework (Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimisation and Sustainability)

What you'll need

• A strong technical security background
• Demonstrated experience in communicating and influencing key stakeholders including business leaders, engineers and customers
• Multiple years of experience working with cloud technologies, preferably with a security focus. We work with AWS, but we understand the skills are transferable
• Strong experience in implementing and automating security best-practices
• Proficient with DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD, version control (we use GitHub) and full-stack repeatability
• Knowledge of incident response planning, security event management, tooling and detection
• Ability to prioritise tasks and work independently
• Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform and CDK.

It would be great if you had

• Foundational networking knowledge, such as switching, firewalls, routing and DNS
• AWS networking knowledge, such as VPCs, Transit Gateways and how this works in a multi-region environment
• Experience with AWS SecurityHub, GuardDuty, Config, Inspector, CloudTrail and other AWS Security services
• Software development experience in either Typescript or Python
• Experience applying security risk assessment methodologies

Why else you'll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people 
• Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits