Staff Security Engineer - Infrastructure

Overview of the Role

We are seeking an experienced Staff Security Engineer who has rich technical experience working in and securing a cloud native environment. You will be a part of an amazing team that’s intensely focused on securing our products, improving our security processes, and building the future of security at PagerDuty.

How You Contribute to Our Vision: Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and configuring infrastructure security controls in a cloud-based infrastructure environment.


• Lead complex projects that require in-depth knowledge within technical, solutions, business and collaborate across the broader engineering organization.


• Identify threats and vulnerabilities, security gaps, and recommend enhancements and changes to increase infrastructure security posture.


• Support security operations to provide the protection of the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of customer data and building/maintaining customer trust.


• Partner with product/engineering, corporate operations, and employees to build and maintain a security-aware culture where everyone understands and plays their part


• Provide thought leadership on modern security operations and help lead our infrastructure security organization in creating trust through security.


• Participating in our team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing security issues as they arise.


• Mentor and grow infrastructure and cloud security engineers. 

Skills and Attributes

• You have a track record of stepping up and leading successful security engineering projects.


• Past experience with security event management, endpoint protection, identity and access management, network security.


• Past experience with threat analysis, threat hunting, proactive security practices


• Prior experience with Security Operations and/or Incident Response, preferably for cloud native services.


• Experience with containerized applications, and technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.


• Experience working in a continuous delivery/continuous deployment environment.


• You have a desire to stay ahead of the latest industry trends and technologies, a track record of sharing contributions to the wider security engineering community and a commitment to continuous learning.


• You believe security should make it easy to do the right thing.


• You are an expert at leading collaborative efforts involving large groups. 


• Expert at building consensus within and across engineering teams. 

Minimum Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure securing infrastructure, securing infrastructure including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, including network security.


• 5+ years experience with cloud-native security experience, cloud-native based security best practices.


• Experience with Linux operating systems, scripting languages such as Python, configuration languages like YAML, JSON and technologies such as Terraform and/or Cloudformation, configuration tools such as Chef or Ansible.


• Experience with AWS cloud security best practices, and AWS security technologies such as AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Shield, AWS GuardDuty.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• The ability to compress intricate security challenges into concise descriptions.


• The ability to solve security problems without saying "No".

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Security Speciality, (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), (ISC)2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).