Senior Director Analyst, Data Security
Gartner
Cyber Security
Staff Product Security Engineer
Affirm
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$178,000 - CA$228,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDynamoDBKubernetesTerraform
About the role
- Drive infrastructure, network and perimeter security initiatives for hardening and segmentation.
- Work across multiple engineering functions and organizations to advocate for security practices.
- Influence, align and implement security features across engineering teams.
- Demonstrate expertise across various domains to design and develop scalable solutions.
- Configure and implement cloud security services, including identity and access management, detective controls, infrastructure protection, and data protection.
- Specify, standardize, configure, and validate access controls across a wide range of cloud services. Integrate security tooling into existing infrastructure.
- Develop security software configurations and improve tool functionality over time. Implement security controls across Affirm’s data infrastructure, including S3, DynamoDB, RDS, and Snowflake.
- Decompose large, cross-team projects into individual tasks. Manage scope across teams and drive toward project closure.
Requirements
- A proven track record of tackling difficult and ambiguous challenges and driving them to success.
- Capable of shifting focus in a complex, ever changing environment to balance between security risks and business agility.
- Strong in multiple domains including infrastructure operations (e.g. networking, systems, storage), Corporate IT, able to make technical trade-offs between short versus long term security business decisions.
- Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure within a Kubernetes environment.
- Experience developing and deploying cloud services using Terraform.
- Understanding of methods and systems used for auditing usage and access to AWS cloud services.
- Experience managing security tooling, including Wiz, Auditbeat, Crowdstrike Falcon EDR, AWS System Manager Agent, or similar.
- BS degree in related field or equivalent experience. MS degree in a related field or equivalent experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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Hard skills
cloud security servicesidentity and access managementdetective controlsinfrastructure protectiondata protectionKubernetesTerraformsecurity software configurationsaccess controlssecurity controls
Soft skills
problem solvingadaptabilityinfluencingcollaborationproject managementtechnical trade-offscommunicationadvocacyscope managementdriving project closure
