Senior Security Engineer

Who we are:

We are 11 people, all hands-on, and the founders still run engagements themselves.

About the role:

Security engineering role focused on identity, cloud configuration and detection. You'll work closely with platform and IT. Baton Rouge Cyber is hiring for the Senior Security Engineer role to secure our cloud infrastructure and the applications that run on it. The company is based in Baton Rouge, the US. The team is distributed across several countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day:

• Own secrets management, key rotation and KMS policies.
• Coordinate external penetration tests and track remediation.
• Run threat modelling sessions with engineering teams on new features and architecture changes.
• Maintain EDR coverage with CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

What you bring:

• 5-7 years in security engineering, application security or a related engineering role.
• Understanding of networking, TLS, PKI and authentication protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0)
• Ability to explain security issues to engineers without lecturing them.
• Programming or scripting ability in Python, Go or similar.
• Good judgment on risk: knowing what to fix now and what can wait.
• Hands-on cloud security experience in AWS, Azure or GCP.

Also helpful:

• Kubernetes and container security (Falco, OPA Gatekeeper)
• IaC scanning with Checkov or tfsec.

What you get:

Salary range: $21.50-$26.50/hr

• Paid time off.
• Annual rate review.

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Baton Rouge Cyber LLC.