Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, SPIFFE

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UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.

By creating continuously optimized identification, detection, and resilience from today’s dynamic threat landscape, UltraViolet Cyber provides both managed and custom-tailored unified security operations solutions to the Fortune 500, Federal Government, and Commercial clients. UltraViolet Cyber is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with global offices across the U.S. and in India. 

The Cloud Operations Enablement Services team is seeking an experienced engineer to assist in delivering a global workload identity service. Based on the SPIFFE reference architecture, we will be establishing a new platform to accurately attest workloads and assign them verifiable identity documents in the form of x509 certificates. You'll be instrumental in building a new Tier Zero service at a large SaaS corporation which will be a foundation platform for future efforts including a global Service Mesh. We are seeking someone with a strong background in deploying cloud-based infrastructure, a solid understanding of public key infrastructure, and the ability to work collaboratively with the engineering teams across multiple geographic regions.

What You'll Do:

• Architect a cloud compute platform based on SPIFFE
• Perform SRE roles including deployment, capacity management, observability, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with our Security Architecture team to define attestation for a variety of workloads spanning multiple compute platforms
• Support engineering teams who will be onboarding to this new service

What You Have:

• Proficiency in operating and supporting cloud-based services using IaC (infrastructure as code, Terraform)
• Proven experience as a systems administrator or service reliability engineer
• Experience with CI/CD processes and source control mechanisms (GitHub)
• Solid understanding of cryptography including x509 certificates
• Knowledge of federated trust models for identity and security
• Understanding and use of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong focus on prioritizing customer experience and support
• Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with customers and leadership

What We Offer:

• 401(k), including an employer match of 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed  
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (available on the 1st day of the month following your first day of employment)  
• Group Term Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability  
• Voluntary Life, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and/or Critical Illness  
• Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program  
• 11 Paid Holidays Annually 

UltraViolet Cyber maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect our company's differing products, services, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors.

We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this position. We know your time is valuable.

UltraViolet Cyber welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. 

If you want to make an impact, UltraViolet Cyber is the place for you!