Sr. Security Engineer

BlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity. 

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be part of BlackCloak’s internal technology team supporting corporate security, information technology operations, and compliance. 

This is a critical role that is both hands-on and strategic, influencing and driving success for BlackCloak and its clients by designing, deploying, and supporting technology solutions for all areas of the business.

What you will do

• Design and iterate upon the next generation of BlackCloak’s secure, privacy-focused architecture strategy for both corporate and SaaS platform infrastructure
• Partner with business executives and key stakeholders to identify security risks and vulnerabilities, propose solutions, and drive improvements
• Review existing security architecture, identify design gaps, and recommend security enhancements
• Deploy security solutions for modern cloud IaaS/SaaS/PaaS such as AWS, GCP, Salesforce, Elastic.co, Google Workspace and other cloud infrastructure
• Own and lead security references, architectures, roadmaps and technical evaluations
• Specification and publication of standards around APIs, secure operations, data security, and software security
• Architect and develop IoC (Infrastructure as Code) methodologies for cloud infrastructure
• Manage and deploy identity access management and device authorization systems
• Stay abreast of current and emerging security threats and design security architecture to mitigate them via design specifications and threat modeling exercises
• Ensure alignment between security architecture frameworks and standards and overall business strategy.

What you need to be successful

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience working with security technologies and standards
• 5+ years experience performing research, security system design experimentation, and benchmarking
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience (terraform, cloudformation, etc.)
• Heavy experience with modern cloud infrastructure such as GCP and AWS.
• Background in modern IAM authentication and authorization solutions
• Experience with endpoint management and security solutions
• Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams
• Track record of designing architectural reference material
• Excellent communication, presentation and reasoning skills
• Demonstrated technical expertise in existing security and IT systems, and an ability to keep pace with changing security and IT technologies
• A team-focused mentality with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders

Nice to have

• 5 years of related IT Security Architecture and solution architecture experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience using Architecture Methodology (TOGAF, Archimate)
• An understanding of the impact of emerging business and end-user technologies on information security requirements and architecture
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one
• An understanding and experience mapping security framework controls to technical solutions, e.g. NIST 800-53, CSF 2.0, SOC 2 TSC

About BlackCloak

BlackCloak is an extremely fast-growing company in an entirely new product category. We have amazing product fit validated by industry awards and an impressive client base of Fortune 500 companies across all industries. 

BlackCloak offers a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a dynamic work environment. Below is a quick summary of BlackCloak’s generous benefits package for full-time employees includes:

- 100% Remote Company100% employer-paid coverage for employees & 50% employer-paid coverage

for dependents for medical (3 plan options), dental and vision plans. 

- Health Savings Account with BlackCloak contributions.

- 100% Employer-paid life & short- and long-term disability insurance

- 401k with both traditional and roth options & an employer match for traditional contributions

- Company Equity Vacation and Sick Leave 

- 10 Paid Company Holidays 

- Wellness Days

- Paid Parental Leave

- Multiple off-sites and virtual events throughout the year 

- In-home office stipend 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

Learn More about Us

Website: https://blackcloak.io

LinkedIn: /blackcloak

Twitter: @BlackCloakCyber

White Paper: https://bc.blackcloak.io/quantifying-the-business-need-for-digital-executive-protection-report-download

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