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