Security Engineer
Xero
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Copenhagen • 🇩🇰 Denmark
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AzureCloud.NETSwiftTerraformTypeScript
About the role
- Responsible for enhancing security posture using advanced threat intelligence solutions for swift detection of malicious threats.
- Collect, analyze, and operationalize real-time threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging risks and adversary tactics and translating these into concrete action points.
- Integrate threat intelligence into security operations to anticipate and respond to threats faster, minimize vulnerabilities, and protect critical systems, platform, and data.
- Be the main technical capacity for information security incidents and help improve incident response workflows.
- Act as a subject matter expert on technical security topics.
- Ensure a security-first approach in all delivery pipelines.
- Write security documentation and provide technical guidance on risk mitigation.
- Platform Engineering is your home but helping other teams on security topics will be a common task as well.
- Influence tooling decisions, vendor selection, and process improvements in alignment with company-wide security goals.
- Collaborate closely with the Legal & Security team to provide expert technical security support.
Requirements
- Solid experience in SIEM and Incident Response.
- Hands-on experience in security engineering or related technical security roles.
- Expertise in cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure), including IAM, networking, monitoring, and data protection.
- Good grasp of modern attack vectors, vulnerability management, and secure software development practices.
- Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Good scripting/coding or automation skills in languages like dotnet and typescript.
- Ability to communicate technical security risks and topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrate high autonomy by transparently prioritizing and effectively managing multiple initiatives.
- Experience with general scripting (Bash, Powershell, Terraform) is a plus.
- Experience working with SaaS products is a plus.
Benefits
- freedom and support to show their true self at work.
- equitable experience for all candidates throughout the process.
- opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SIEMIncident Responsesecurity engineeringcloud platformsIAMnetworkingmonitoringdata protectioninfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD
Soft skills
communicationautonomyprioritizationmanagement