IT Cloud Security Engineer (hybrid setup)

Join a team of cloud infrastructure professionals and help iptiQ America's to fulfil its mission in making the world more resilient! As an IT Cloud Security Engineer, your task will be defining the managing our Cloud setup, implementing preventive and detective security-enforcing controls, and automating monitoring and metrics. What's more, you'll be working in a hybrid setup, balancing work from home and the office premises.    

iptiQ, a wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss Re Group, is a "white label" Life & Health insurance provider, working in partnership with leading consumer brands across Europe.  

As a white label solution provider, we offer an end-to-end insurance manufacturing solution, tailored to our partner's and their customer needs. We cover every step of the insurance manufacturing process, including product design, policy administration, underwriting, claims management, accounting and finance. We differentiate by providing our services based on a strong technology platform designed to serve direct to consumer channels with high degree of automation. We offer our service services primarily to Life and Non-Life insurance companies and strong retail brands (including banks) in the United States. 

About the team 

The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for managing iptiQ's IT infrastructure, Security, DevOps and IT Support. We are responsible for building and maintaining reliable and resilient infrastructure that enables us to provide best possible quality of service to our distribution partners. We are also providing support to various teams in iptiQ with matters related to IT infrastructure and related services. 

About the role 

• Experienced with vulnerability management, and operations in key security components as well as security compliance. 
• Discover security gaps and implement necessary remediation functionality and configurations.  
• Understand the vulnerability alerts provided by the internal security tools, identify the specific issue and underlying cause in our infrastructure from those alerts, prepare actionable remediation tasks and collaborate in implementing those remediations as well as document SOPs to improve our security posture. 
• Serve as main contact between the local and global infosec teams and iptiQ Americas cloud infrastructure team.  
• Evangelize Cloud Security practices and mindset within IptiQ Americas. 
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers during the implementation and maintenance of azure infrastructure. 

About you 

• You have good interpersonal skills and is able to work proactively and serve as SME for other members of the team. 
• Desired technical skills are PaloAlto firewalls, Cloudflare, Kubernetes as well networking and security in Azure cloud.   
• The role requires working during US business hours (10am -6pm CET)  and sometimes during maintenance windows. 

Nice-to-have 

• Understanding of DevSecOps practices, including usage of tools like Jira, Confluence Azure DevOps 
• Microsoft, CISSP, CCSP, SANS GIAC or similar qualifications 

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