Security Engineer / DevSecOps

About the role

We are toogeza, a Ukrainian recruiting company that is focused on hiring talents and building teams for tech startups worldwide. People make a difference in the big game, and we may help to find the right ones.

We are looking for a Security Engineer / DevSecOps professional to implement and improve security controls across our corporate infrastructure and new digital services, including AI solutions.

Our environment combines Windows and Linux systems, private and cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and internally developed applications and integrations.

You will work closely with the CISO, DevOps, IT Operations, and project teams to identify technical risks, implement safeguards, automate security tasks, and verify that controls work effectively. We value practical engineering skills, independent problem-solving, and experience translating governance requirements into technical implementation.

Reports to: Head of Cybersecurity (CISO) Role type: Hands-on individual contributor

What you will do:

Security monitoring and detection

- Develop and implement a security monitoring roadmap, including requirements, architecture, and integration priorities.

- Contribute to the selection and evolution of our SIEM/XDR architecture.

- Integrate log sources and maintain reliable, complete, and useful security telemetry.

- Develop and test detection rules, correlation logic, and threat-hunting queries.

- Support incident investigation and improve response procedures.

Vulnerability management

- Implement a repeatable process for vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritisation, remediation tracking, and retesting.

- Assess exploitability and business impact, considering exposure, asset criticality, and potential attack paths.

- Develop remediation plans with IT and DevOps, track progress, and verify that fixes are effective.

Secure service delivery and hardening

- Review the security of service architectures, configurations, integrations, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Develop technical checklists covering access controls, role models, credentials and secrets, network connectivity, external integrations, encryption, and logging.

- Implement and automate secure configuration baselines.

- Work with DevOps to assess security readiness before production launches and address identified risks.

- Plan and validate security changes with attention to service availability and rollback options.

Security automation and AI-assisted engineering

- Build scripts and integrations for event analysis, configuration checks, vulnerability management, and reporting.

- Use AI coding assistants and agent tools to support engineering tasks.

- Validate generated code and findings, and protect credentials, access permissions, and corporate data throughout these workflows.