Cloud Security Engineer

Parity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, laying the foundation for the new decentralised internet. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellowpaper.

We believe in a decentralised web that respects the freedom and data of individuals and empowers developers to create better services. Our vision is to create a world based on truthful, rather than trustful, interactions.

With a remote-first, global team, Parity is building open-source technologies for developers and organisations to implement and build upon. Our Web3 tech stack includes Polkadot, Substrate, and Kusama.

• Highly motivated to contribute to Parity’s mission and be part of something bigger

• Excited to work on projects that are groundbreaking and complex

• Autonomous workers that self-initiate, but also collaborate well with others

• Taking maximum accountability and having minimum ego at work

• Comfortable with chaos and adapting to the ever-changing Web3 space

• Continuously educating themselves about Parity and the wider ecosystem

The Cloud Security team is pivotal in helping infrastructure and Release management teams to secure our networks, operating systems, containers, pipelines and code. We are part of the Security team with a mission of reducing the impact of threats to Parity and its products, bolstering their resilience against potential cyber threats.

This is a crucial role where your understanding of people, systems, and security will allow you to advocate for and influence best practices in a diverse free thinking organisation while facilitating smooth development and implementation processes.  It is a unique opportunity to help secure an innovative organisation where feedback is direct and honest and understands that a check box approach doesn’t get results.

• Advising Infra Engineering and IT teams on security topics and supporting their work from the security standpoint — maintaining things practical using a risk-based approach with a focus on following areas

  • Automation of 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

  • Network, Vm & container image and  system hardening, Cloud issues and misconfigurations 

  • Endpoint Security, Infrastructure Identity and Access Management, SIEM, Threat intelligence, common misconfigs (DNS, email, networking, etc.)

• Organising and performing penetration testing of our infrastructure, and collaborating with external parties on those tests.

• Picking 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)

• Writing and enabling adoption of  company-wide security standards and guidelines, as well as implementing tools and automation to enable their deployment.

• Mentoring other team members on all matters related to security and IT and infrastructure engineering.

• Focused on outcomes (rather than activities) and outcome based delivery

• Ability  to partner with multiple teams in order to  (including but not only tackle issues, clarifying requirements, communicating and convincing stakeholders, etc..) 

• Comfortable with a Linux-based tech stack (managed VMs, SSH, VPNs, firewalls,)

• Experience with Kubernetes (incl. managed), Terraform, Ansible, Github, Gitlab,, ArgoCD, Image registries

• Experience with various cloud platforms including, Google Cloud, non-managed providers

• We’d love it if you had an understanding of blockchain tech and associated tooling (wallets, keys, RPC nodes and indexers etc.)

• 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

• Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects

• 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

Those joining our collective as an employee in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and the U.K. also enjoy benefits such as health care, parental leave, PTO (28 days per year), local team events, yearly L&D budget, and language classes.

Parity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.

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