Security Engineer
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Security Engineer
Remote - EU/Africa
9 month initial contract
Who are we?
We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.
We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.
What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.
Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about
About this role
You will be responsible for integrating security into every phase of cloud infrastructure and application development. You'll work on IAM, security automation, and compliance, ensuring that all cloud services meet regulatory and operational security requirements.
Your Responsibilities
• Implement secure access management through IAM, RBAC, and VPC Service Controls.
• Design and manage encryption and key management solutions using Cloud KMS and HSM.
• Conduct security audits using Security Command Center and Cloud Asset Inventory.
• Automate compliance checks and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and security code reviews.
• Develop security policies for network security, certificate management, and key rotation.
• Work closely with financial compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory standards.
About You
We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.
• Deep expertise in Cloud KMS, HSM, and certificate management.
• Strong programming background in Python, Go, and Java.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, and container security tools.
• Security architecture expertise, including IAM, network security, and PKI.
• Knowledge of financial compliance frameworks and audit requirements.
• Proficiency in security automation, logging, and monitoring best practices.
Nice to Have
• Familiarity with financial messaging protocols.
• Experience with automating compliance reporting.
• Understanding of NATS security and secure messaging architectures.
About us
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
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- Department
- Elastic Team
- Locations
- Fully Remote
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Workplace & culture
Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly.
The Company is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.
About Distributed
We are Distributed: we help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our on-demand Elastic Teams.
Last year alone Distributed won 5 awards including 2 awards for growth, most disruptive startup in Startups 100, Winner in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK, a winner in the Red Herring Europe Top 100, and winner of a global award for Outstanding Reward & Recognition for remote working from The Omnis.
This year BT Digital signed a £30m deal with Distributed to accelerate its digital transformation and innovation agenda by rapidly bringing together multi-skilled digital teams.
We do things differently, we move fast, we are recognised as leaders in our sector, and we look after our people. We are a people company that uses technology to deliver beyond client expectations.
Join us if you want to be part of our Elastic Team community that’s shaping the future of freelance working..
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