Summary
What you’ll impact
The Senior Platform Security Engineer will lead the design, operation, and continuous improvement of the organization’s vulnerability management program across its HPC and cloud platforms. They will work closely with Platform Engineering and DevOps to embed real-time threat detection, security scanning, and automation into the development lifecycle, ensuring resilient and secure infrastructure.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Own the design and operation of NMC²’s vulnerability management program across the platform engineering stack, including infrastructure, containers, and cloud services
- Implement and tune real-time security monitoring and threat detection tooling, ensuring high-fidelity signal across our HPC and cloud environments
- Partner with Platform Engineering and DevOps teams to integrate security scanning and vulnerability assessment into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows
- Lead vulnerability triage and prioritization, working with engineering teams to drive timely and effective remediation of identified risks
- Conduct platform-level security assessments, contributing to threat modelling and attack surface analysis across our infrastructure and software supply chain
- Develop automation to continuously assess the security posture of our platforms, reducing manual effort and improving detection coverage
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform security practices, tooling, and processes, helping foster a security-first culture across engineering
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong focus on platform, infrastructure, or application security
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tooling and real-time security monitoring platforms (e.g. Qualys, Tenable, Wiz, Lacework, Prisma Cloud, or similar)
- Strong understanding of software and infrastructure security, including container security, supply chain risk, secrets management, and secure configuration
- Experience securing container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and OpenStack, and cloud environments including AWS and/or Azure
- Proficiency in Linux and familiarity with how platform engineering teams build and operate infrastructure
- Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines and IaC workflows, with scripting ability in Python, Bash, Go, or similar
- Good knowledge of vulnerability scoring frameworks (CVSS), exploit maturity, and risk-based prioritization
- A strong interest in the security domain and a collaborative approach to working with engineering teams to solve complex technical problems