Senior Security Operations Engineer

Cohere is a company dedicated to scaling intelligence to serve humanity through AI systems. As a Senior Security Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing security in cloud environments, managing IAM/RBAC, and responding to security incidents while collaborating with various teams to ensure secure infrastructure design.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues
• Harden our cloud-native environments (AWS, OCI, GCP) by introducing secure by default designs and features into network, tooling, and processes
• Own and drive resolutions for enabling engineers to design, build, and use infrastructure securely at scale by deploying secure architectures using infrastructure-as-code and reusable code libraries
• Manage IAM / RBAC for cloud infrastructure, and partner with IT on streamling authentication/authorization to ensure unified access control across the board
• Deploy and operationalize some of the security services and tools (eg: SIEM, SOAR, domain monitoring, endpoint tooling, cloud security tooling)
• Respond to security incidents and harden environments post-incidents
• Support control monitoring and remediation for compliance initiatives
• Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies
• Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions

Requirements:

• 5+ years previous experience in SecOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Threat Detection & Response or software development with a strong focus on security tool onboarding and optimization
• You're a hands-on security engineer interested in automating controls
• You have experience in managing cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI) and Kubernetes environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and SecOps workflows (Git, Terraform) in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI)
• You have experience with one or more of: infrastructure automation, network segmentation, system hardening, container and cloud security concepts, and security observability
• You have experience with multiple languages such as Golang and/or Python
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and are able to make informed decisions with little data
• You employ a flexible and constructive approach when solving problems
• You are able to make trade-offs between build vs. buy decisions - help build solutions and able to review what tools are available
• You understand secure engineering best practices, can articulate problem statements and propose solutions to both technically savvy and non-technical audiences