Security Engineer

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This role will be based in Portugal and you need to be residing in the country already.



As a Security Operations Engineer in our team, you'll be reporting to our Head of Security and collaborating with other engineers and tech stakeholders at OLX. You will assist in designing, implementing, and promoting our security incident management processes and automation.

You will:

Support the OLX Security Operations Center (SOC) by assisting with the incident response and its lifecycle;

Contribute to incident response training for the organization;

Assist in integrating our platforms and services with the SOC;

Participate in “protect, detect, and respond” engineering tasks;

Participate in Threat Hunting tasks;

Participate in improving our threat intelligence system;

Help develop, improve, and manage alerts of automated escalation processes;

Work on custom integrations, which may require development skills in Python and Bash in containerized environments such as Kubernetes;

Collaborate with other teams to streamline security across OLX, including Tech, Privacy, and Compliance teams.

You have:

4-6 years of experience working in a Security;

4-6 years of experience with the Elastic stack for SIEM;

Experience in Incident Response and Security Operations within a dynamic and evolving environment, including Cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS);

4-6 years of experience working with Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).Understanding of modern Security technologies, especially for customer-centric applications, WAF, SSDLC, IAM, IDS/IPS, SOAR, SIEM, MDM, XDR, and AV;

Experience in most common Operating Systems and Networks. Knowledge of pager applications for alert management and escalation;

Basic understanding of concepts like least privilege, agile, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, and containerization orchestration;

Some familiarity with Security and Privacy frameworks and best practices, such as NIST, ISO27001, CIS, PCI DSS, GDPR and NIS2.

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