Senior Platform Engineer (Encryption & Data Security)

Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company! The Senior Platform Engineer (Encryption & Data Security) is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and evolution of platform capabilities that ensure secure data handling across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure infrastructure services supporting 30+ development teams
• Own and evolve end-to-end encryption strategies across:
• Service-to-service communication
• Data at rest
• Data in transit
• Drive the design and adoption of automated certificate lifecycle management (including rotation and revocation)
• Define and implement platform-wide approaches to data classification and labeling
• Act as a technical leader and subject matter expert in encryption and data security across the organization
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using GitOps principles, setting standards for others to follow
• Guide and support teams in securely integrating with platform services and adopting best practices
• Lead incident response and complex troubleshooting across infrastructure, networking, and distributed systems
• Identify and drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and security across the platform
• Contribute to architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy
• Mentor other engineers and elevate engineering standards across the team
• Participate in on-call rotations and help evolve operational excellence practices

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in TLS, PKI, certificate chains, and certificate lifecycle management
• Strong understanding of encryption fundamentals (symmetric/asymmetric cryptography, key management, rotation strategies)
• Proven experience designing and operating secure systems at scale
• Strong experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or similar roles
• Proficiency in at least one programming language and ability to write production-grade code
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-based workflows
• Deep expertise in AWS, including services such as EC2, S3, VPC, EKS, ALB/ELB, and Transit Gateway
• Strong Linux engineering skills, including networking, storage, and OS fundamentals
• Solid understanding of network security and experience with CDNs
• Experience working with at least one database, Elasticsearch or Mongodb preferred
• Experience working with distributed systems and debugging complex production issues
• Ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them to resolution
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence across teams
• Experience working within compliance and regulatory frameworks (e.g., CMMC, FedRAMP)
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Familiarity with languages such as Go or Java
• Experience with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ or Kafka
• Experience implementing or operating automated certificate rotation systems
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices and security architecture
• AWS certifications