Security Engineer

Sinch, the Customer Communications Cloud, powers meaningful conversations at scale across messaging, voice, and email to help businesses deliver unified, personalized experiences that truly revolve around their customers — no matter the channels they use. Over 150,000 businesses, including 8 of the 10 largest tech companies in the world, rely on us for their customer communication needs, with over 700 billion customer engagements each year.

Providing innovative mobile messaging solutions that help businesses of all sizes – from SMBs to enterprise-level to better connect with customers. Our messaging solutions for alerts and notifications, billing and payments, appointment reminders, marketing, and staff scheduling are trusted by over 65,000 customers in industries such as healthcare, education, retail, and utilities. Sinch is the number one choice for easy and engaging business messaging.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to join our global team. In this role you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security protocols to safeguard sensitive information, such as customer data and company intellectual property. Must have a deep understanding of networking and system architecture, as well as knowledge of current and emerging threats and technologies. The Security Engineer plays a crucial role in incident response and developing strategies to prevent future attacks. This position requires strong analytical and communication skills, as well as a commitment to staying up to date with the latest trends and best practices in cybersecurity.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for assessing and understanding the threat landscape by working with other Cyber functions such as Offensive Security, Digital Forensics etc. and architecting solutions to calibrate risk consistent with risk tolerance.
• Reviewing security intelligence information and researching emerging threats - to proactively identify and prevent potential threats. 
• Build and/or tune Sinch security tools, such as EDR, email security, and vulnerability scanning and SIEM solution to ensure that alerts are effective and actionable.
• Augment Incident Response team to ensure 24/7 coverage and operations. Responsibilities sometimes will require working evenings and weekends, sometimes with little or no advanced notice.
• Be able to effectively communicate, both written and verbally, complex security and technical concepts to a wide variety of stakeholders and partners and build and leverage and earn the trust of stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Establish and modify runbooks that provide other subject matter experts with a consistent manner of executing the processes.
• Employing the security technologies to continuously monitor the company’s assets, conduct technical analysis of network traffic to identify anomalies and then taking action to respond to potential vulnerabilities and threats.  

The successful candidate will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Proven experience in working on threat, vuln, fraud or compliance - ideally building or supporting cross-functional mitigation programs.
• A background that involves creating a layered security perimeter in the context of a cloud- and container-based microservices.
• Experience supporting (or building) a security operations function in startup environments, ideally serving as incident commander for security incidents.
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, OSI stack model, L2, L3 and L7 fundamentals and raw packet analysis. Fluency with common cryptographic modalities
• Experience using tools like LogRhythm, Nessus, CASB manage threat telemetry.
• One industry-recognized security certification (CEH, CISSP, CCSP, CISA) -- or the willingness to secure one within six months.

We dream big — for our company, our customers, and our employees — and we hire the best talent worldwide to help us bring our vision to life. We have a local presence in more than 60 countries — probably somewhere near you!

We are committed to building an engaged and talented workforce that represents an environment that is inclusive, supports flexibility and welcomes diversity.

Our values of Dream Big, Win Together, Keep it simple and Make it Happen are the foundation for fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results.

We value our team by offering:

• WHERE YOU WORK MATTERS: We understand the benefit of a flexible schedule where you can best impact both your personal and work life, so we offer a hybrid working arrangement, work from home set up reimbursement and a global mobility policy.
• PUT FAMILY FIRST: We know that building a family take priority, therefore we offer a generous parental leave program: 26 weeks salary for primary care giver and 4 weeks salary for secondary care giver
• CELEBRATE YOURESELF: By providing a day off for your birthday, we want you to take the time to celebrate the year you’ve had with your nearest and dearest.
• TAKE A BREAK: Enjoy a generous annual leave program. We value balance and understand that performance at work requires time to rest at home and/or rejuvenate on vacation.
• STAY HEALTHY: Physical wellness supports mental wellness, so we offer a monthly fitness reimbursement allowance and other wellness programs
• TAKE THE NEXT STEP: Coaching and career development support, including access to a range of online professional development courses
• CARE FOR YOURSELF: Take advantage of our free virtual counselling resources through our global Employee Assistance Program. Your mental health is as important as your physical health.
• MAKE AN IMPACT: Support betterment in your community and beyond by taking paid time off to support a volunteer program of your choice.
• TREAT YOURSELF: Access to Reward+ program that offers a wide range of discounts and deals across retail, entertainment and much more.

If you are looking for the next opportunity in your career and want to work for a people focused, growing tech company, then Apply Now.