Senior SaaS Security Engineer

Founded by mathematicians and cyber defense experts in 2013, Darktrace is a global leader in cyber security AI, delivering complete AI-powered solutions in its mission to free the world of cyber disruption. We protect more than 8,400 customers from the world’s most complex threats, including ransomware, cloud, and SaaS attacks.

Our roots lie deep in innovation. The Darktrace AI Research Centre based in Cambridge, UK, has conducted research establishing new thresholds in cyber security, with technology innovations backed by over 130 patents and pending applications. The company’s European R&D center is located in The Hague, Netherlands.

Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, Darktrace has more than 2,400 employees located globally. Customers include public sector agencies, education institutions, media, organizations supplying critical infrastructure, and businesses of all sizes worldwide.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-growing company, named one of TIME magazine’s “Most Influential Companies” for 2021 and one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative AI Companies” in 2022. For more information on our cutting-edge technology, visit darktrace.com.

As the Senior SaaS Security Engineer, you will help secure the SaaS applications and critical PaaS and IaaS platforms used throughout our business. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include configuration of application security baselines, auditing deployed applications for security compliance, collaborating with the development team to produce new Darktrace product detections, and automating security tool ingestion of application logs. You will work closely with the DevOps, IT, Security, and executive leaderships teams to ensure that we maintain the highest security standards. This role requires is a good mix of hands-on technical and security compliance skills.

This is a hybrid role, and the expectation would be to work a minimum of 2 days a week in the Cambridge office.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, configure, audit, and document the security settings of authorized SaaS applications and associated integrations.
• Develop automated solutions to ingest SaaS security logs into the central security logging solution and Darktrace products.
• Participate in the incident response planning processes as it pertains to SaaS threats.
• Partner with the DevOps and Integrations teams to develop new Darktrace product detections and capabilities.
• Provide recommendations to Security, IT, Development, and business stakeholders to improve the governance and lifecycle management of approved SaaS applications.

Requirements:

• Experience in major system security configuration including but not limited to Workday and Salesforce.  
• A solid understanding of general SaaS and PaaS security best practices and a working knowledge of any of the major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps best practices gained from experience building infrastructure in the cloud.
• Prior experience deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining enterprise security tooling, as well as proposing improvements to logging and monitoring capabilities.
• Professional certifications, such as CISSP, GIAC, or other relevant vendor training courses or certifications (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, SalesForce). 
• Proficiency with at least one scripting language and demonstrated experience working with version control systems such as Gitlab or Github.
• An intellectually curious team player with excellent communication, collaboration, documentation, and presentation skills.

Benefits:

• 23 days holiday + a day off for your birthday, rising to 25 (+ birthday) after 2 years
• All UK public holidays
• BUPA healthcare with premiums fully paid by Darktrace for employee + eligible family members
• Salary Sacrifice pension scheme with company contribution of 4% and employee contribution of 5%
• Life Insurance  4x salary
• Cycle to work scheme

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