Security Engineer

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This position will be based in Portugal, and you must already reside in the country.

As a Security Operations Engineer in our team, you will report to our Security Chief and collaborate with other engineers and technical stakeholders at OLX. You will help design, implement, and promote our security incident management processes and automation.

You will:

• Support OLX's Security Operations Center (SOC) by assisting in incident response and its lifecycle;
• Contribute to incident response training for the organization;
• Help integrate our platforms and services with the SOC;
• Participate in 'protect, detect, respond' engineering tasks;
• Engage in Threat Hunting tasks;
• Participate in improving our threat intelligence system;
• Help develop, improve, and manage alerts for automated escalation processes;
• Work on custom integrations, which may require development skills in Python and Bash in container environments like Kubernetes;
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize security at OLX, including Technology, Privacy, and Compliance teams.

You have:

• 4-6 years of experience working in Security;
• 4-6 years of experience with the Elastic stack for SIEM;
• Experience in Incident Response and Security Operations in a dynamic, 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-facing applications, WAF, SSDLC, IAM, IDS/IPS, SOAR, SIEM, MDM, XDR, and AV;
• Experience with common operating systems and networks.
• Knowledge of pager applications for alert management and escalation;
• Basic understanding of concepts like the principle of least privilege, agile, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, and content 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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