Cyber Defense Specialist

Are you eager to work in a great team and share knowledge? Do you like problem analysis and solving? Do you have a solution oriented and proactive attitude? Jumia Porto Tech Center is for you
**What you will be doing**:
- Identify opportunities to improve security and implement the tools necessary to execute improvements considering full automation.
- Proactively identify and remediate security risks introduced by the cloud platforms, or as flagged by vulnerability scanning software.
- Implement solutions necessary to address security audits and compliance efforts on our cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of SOX, PCI DSS, and GDPR is highly desirable.
- Ability to dive deep into software configurations and logs to recommend security-based improvements.
- Ensure that solutions are engineered with operational efficiency and security by design.
- Build automation frameworks and systems to improve security by design mentality on current CI/CD systems.
- Participate in on-call for security incident response.
- Provide Executive level non-technical analysis to effectively illustrate the potential impact of weaknesses identified to various audiences.
- The creation of secure system lifecycle standards and secure coding standards based on the threat landscape and industry best practices.
**What we are looking for**:
- **Essential**:_
- Proven expertise on security.
- 3 years of Cloud Operations / Infrastructure Engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on experience on public cloud platforms on at least one (Google, AWS or Azure).
- Strong system administrator experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.
- Experience with auditing and logging tools such as AWS CloudTrail or ELK.
- Experience with Monitoring and reporting tools such as DataDog, New Relic, Zabbix and Graphite/Grafana.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or relevant professional expertise.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.
**_Desirable: _**
- Ability to debug and optimize code and automate tasks.
- Understands the concepts of public cloud Infrastructure
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Experience with automated configuration management and deployment using tools such as Ansible and Python.
- Experience with vulnerability scanning software such as Tenable, Qualys, AWS Inspector, and any code scanning or audit highly desirable.
- Experience with DevSecOps (Automation of security controls in the CD/CI environments) with Git and Jenkins
- Experience with managed Kubernetes in the cloud.
- Experience working in a hybrid environment is preferred.
**We offer you a career with**
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.
**And even more for our Jumees**
- Attractive bonus scheme
- Free access to Udemy for Business for an unlimited training experience
- A great work-life balance: hybrid workweek; additional vacation day in December
- Caring perks: individual private health insurance, dental insurance, discounted gym membership, parental bonus
- Fun at work: company events, quarterly team building, drinks and snacks.
Please send your CV in English. CV in other languages will not be considered.
**Salary**: Up to R$439,000.00 per year

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