Job Title:  Security Engineer

Job Location: Remote, India

Does the challenge of finding security flaws in custom application code get your mind racing? Can you think like an attacker to misuse & break cloud services? Do you have an interest in compliance & simplifying the process for achieving it? Join Acquia & help enhance the security of the largest sites & brands on the planet, whose Drupal apps are powered by our PaaS platform & SaaS services built on top of many thousands of AWS EC2 instances.  

Summary:

Acquia runs one of the world's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Our Drupal optimized cloud runs on over 10,000 AWS instances & delivers billions of page views monthly for our clients, running some of the largest & most mission-critical websites in the world. We are seeking passionate application security engineers with a strong security mindset who are willing to take the initiative to tackle important problems across multiple products at Acquia, with a focus on our cloud hosting platform. 

Our cloud engineering team utilizes a variety of programming languages & technologies to tackle many interesting architecture & scalability challenges. Although we run PHP & MySQL at a massive scale for our Drupal customers, on the backend were building scalable systems, automation & stack enhancements in everything from Ruby to Go, & storing data in everything from MySQL to DynamoDB.

At Acquia we work on a variety of exciting projects ranging from running massive microservice infrastructures, to building highly available database clusters using the latest technologies, to building streaming log pipelines & ultimately being the best place in the world to run Drupal websites. Were one of Amazons largest partners & run our workloads in 9 AWS regions.

Job Description:

• Be a Security Champion in an agile Security Engineering team owning & operating the services you build
• Research, specify, & test cloud hosting architectures leveraging your web, database, & OS knowledge
• Debug the toughest distributed systems production issues

Job Requirements:

• 3+ years of related experience in Security Engineering 
• Cloud security & compliance experience using AWS (e.g., Firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, DDOS prevention & PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.)
• Strong software development background using any general programming language
• Understanding of Kubernetes
• Passion for websites & website delivery architecture
• Deep, working knowledge of LAMP stack--OS, web server, & database systems (Linux, Apache, & MySQL preferred)
• Linux packages (e.g., Debian or RPM packages); RHEL & Ubuntu experience
• Networking (e.g., TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, load balancing, HTTP caching, clustering, VPN, etc.)
• Holistic understanding of the Internet & hosting from the network layer up through the application layer.
• Excellent organizational & communication skills, both verbal & written
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to work effectively across multiple teams & drive results

Extra Credit:

• Software development using Python or Go
• Experience with threat modeling, especially for web application & web APIs
• Configuration management (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Containerization:  Docker, LXC, etc.
• Kubernetes: Hands-on, working experience securing K8s deployments according to hard multi-tenancy guidelines & methods.  

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.