Position: Security Practice Team Lead
Company: Skelia
Category: Security
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Now they are looking for a practitioner and an advocate of state-of-the-art secure coding, secure design, and security automation practices. With a broad toolkit of technologies and methods and with a strong DevSecOps mindset, you will tackle the whole software development cycle of designing, building, testing, and deploying applications.

*About our client*

TUI UK is one of the biggest subsidiaries of the tourism market global leader - TUI. The company operates in 180 countries all around the world, has more than 70 000 people on board, and over 30 million customers. With a great history of success, they recognize the power of digital and the massive contribution this brings to creating a truly unique and differentiated customer experience.

*About the project*

You will be part of a cross-functional team that enables secure coding, secure design, and security automation skills and capabilities in domains. You will support your team in delivering the best answers to our customers’ needs and in taking over full responsibility for its applications, from design to operation.  With your advanced skillset for understanding and solving problems, you will take full ownership of complex topics or multi-faceted initiatives and outcomes panning across your domain.

*Mission*

- Together with your team, you will create software products that are secure by default and ensure information security is considered throughout the design and implementation of software products and services
- You work alongside engineering teams to understand the threat landscape, and business requirements and to describe security risks and goals
- You will lead domain-wide engineering excellence efforts and propose high-impact initiatives and projects
- You will devise, develop, and champion best practices within and between teams and collaborate with engineering teams to drive down operational burden through automation
- You will guide your team to set the right priorities and to manage their workload efficiently
- You will ensure the members of your team are growing within their area of expertise, acquiring new skills, doing valuable work, working well together, and feeling engaged and supported
- You will be responsible for the identification and recruitment of new talent into your team, coaching and mentoring existing and new team members, and their active career development
- You provide your team with tooling and automation to identify possible threats and vulnerabilities before they are promoted to production
- You tackle the whole cycle of designing, building, testing and deploying software on AWS
- You take an engineering approach to solving security problems, selecting and guiding teams to use the right tools for the right jobs and thus solve the given business and technical problems in an efficient way

*Requirements*

- Thought leader in designing secure, highly available, distributed applications and, in secure coding practices in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment
- Experience with information security standards & practices and their practical implications
- Deep automation skills, hands-on with some programming languages
- Good experience with CI/CD, preferably Gitlab CI
- Ability to design, build, test, and deploy applications on AWS
- Customer centric, passionate about delivering great digital products and services
- Demonstrating true software craftsmanship mindset
- Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams
- Compelling coaching and training skills for imparting professional software engineering skills
- Strong problem-solving skills coupled with good communication skills
- Understanding of social and ethical implications of software engineering
- Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner
- Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous