AI Summary
Akka is seeking a hands-on Platform Security Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain security solutions for their agentic AI platform. This role involves safeguarding systems, applications, and data, partnering with development and operations teams, and enhancing adversarial robustness. The engineer will manage CNAPP and SIEM solutions, integrate security into the SDLC, and automate security controls.
Key Highlights
Architect, implement, and maintain security solutions for Akka's PaaS.
Conduct AI threat modeling and improve adversarial robustness.
Manage and secure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and applications using CNAPP.
Integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle and secure the software supply chain.
Automate security controls and evidence collection for compliance.
Analyze findings, remediate vulnerabilities, and improve the organization's security posture.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
Remote-first, flexible work environment
Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning
Job Description
Akka’s platform for agentic AI systems simplifies building new classes of applications, enabled by AI – based on our experience of building distributed systems
Job Description Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Platform Security Engineer to join our team. You will help architect, implement, and maintain security solutions that safeguard our systems, applications, and data. You’ll partner closely with development, operations, and product teams to build secure services from the ground up, detect and respond to threats, and continuously improve our security posture.
Responsibilities
- Harden Akka’s PaaS for the bring your own cloud deployment model
- Review existing security infrastructure, identify critical systems and data flows, and understand current compliance requirements
- Conduct AI threat modeling and improve our adversarial robustness
- Maintain CNAPP solution to manage and secure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes deployments, and applications. Establish policies and alerting mechanisms within the CNAPP
- Develop plans to integrate telemetry data and configure processing for use in security analysis
- Utilize next-gen SIEM platform. Optimize the existing SIEM, ensuring data integrity and compliance
- Integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle. Implement measures to secure the software supply chain and develop secure development policies
- Create and implement security policies as code to automate and enforce security controls
- Identify and implement automation opportunities for collecting evidence required for compliance
- Analyze findings and implement improvements to the organization's security posture, remediating vulnerabilities and deploying additional security controls
- Create comprehensive documentation for all configurations, processes, and procedures. Provide training and knowledge sharing with other team members
- CISSP, OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, or GCP Cloud Security preferred
- AWS/Azure/GCP security services; Kubernetes hardening
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles and practices
- Familiarity with modern security tools and methodologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- The team is distributed, which means that a very high degree of both autonomy and teamwork skills are required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (English)
Location
This is a remote position where the candidate can be located anywhere in the world. We would like some overlap with America to allow proper cooperation with our current team.
What We Offer
Akka is a welcoming, transparent, and highly distributed company dedicated to creating high-performance distributed systems that bring success to all who use them. With a strong focus on work-life balance, our company offers a fast-paced, collaborative environment mixed with challenging and engaging work. This combination has attracted and retained some of the brightest minds in our technology communities.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
- Remote-first, flexible work environment
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning
- Collaborative, inclusive, and innovative company culture
- We’re Authentic: We value transparency and genuine communication, without politics or games. We're honest and assume good intentions, cultivating trust and accountability within our organization and in our interactions with others outside of Akka
- We’re Customer-Focused: We value customer outcomes above all else. By prioritizing our customers' interests, and meeting them where they are today, we help ensure their success. We are dedicated to deeply understanding our customer’s needs, anticipating challenges, navigating time constraints and striving to exceed expectations
- We’re Nonconventional: We value fearless innovation by challenging the status quo and embracing alternative approaches. Continuous learning and a growth mindset aimed at improving ourselves, our company, and our products, drives us to push boundaries and explore new solutions. Guided by a bias for action, we leverage industry and customer insights to inspire fresh ideas, enabling optimal future offerings
- We’re Persistent: We value excellence through continuous experimentation and courageous problem-solving. We recognize that achieving success often demands approaching challenges with tenacity and taking calculated risks to achieve leading-edge solutions
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