Position: Security Engineer
Company: Currency.com
Experience required: 3y
Category: Security
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Key Responsibilities:**
- Understand the technology landscape and identify vulnerabilities that may affect the security, integrity, or reputation of the company, its applications, infrastructure, and data
- Document the current state, the desired future state, and any gaps related to the IT Security function
- Define practices and approaches to detect weaknesses in systems and propose ways to rectify them
- Provide consultation, analysis, and guidance to improve the security plans for new projects
- Participate in information security standard audit and evidence gathering activities
- Monitor systems and review logs and alerts to proactively detect abnormal activity as a possible indicator of compromise
- Participate in internal information security risk assessments and controls selection activities
- Participate in vendor risk assessments and technology evaluation
- Remain updated on threats, and vulnerabilities related to security, information security, and privacy and make that information available and consumable by a broad range of business and IT stakeholders
- Participate as a member of the Incident Response Team.

**Essential Requirements:**

Demonstrated understanding of:
- network fundamentals and design
- system administration across multiple platforms
- enterprise, role-based authorization tools, techniques, design, and best practices
- intrusion detection and prevention, forensic IT
- security methodologies, tools, and best practices
- desktop, mobile, server, application, database, and network security principles for risk identification, analysis, and mitigation.

Alongside a demonstrated ability to implement security controls that comply with government, corporate, and local regulations.

Knowledge of:
- server hardening
- securing cloud and hybrid architectures
- security baseline
- secure configuration and change management
- secure development practices
- log monitoring and SIEM principles and tools.

**Benefits:**
- Professional and friendly working environment
- Exciting assignments in a local and international environment
- An opportunity to grow and learn
- Medical insurance & additional sick-days and paid sick leave