Staff SecOps Engineer

<p>Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.</p> <p>We are currently seeking a<strong> Staff SecOps Engineer</strong> to join our talented team of engineers, dedicated to delivering a more sustainable future. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring end-to-end platform security. You will have the opportunity to strongly influence and contribute to the team’s future.</p> <p>Lunar Energy empowers you to explore multiple facets of our technology stack, aligned with your personal interests and abilities. We have a strong tradition of leveraging functional programming and type systems to craft pragmatic and flexible systems that align with business requirements.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Incident response and detection</li> <li>Architect and evolve the SecOps platform</li> <li>Run hypothesis-driven hunts and operationalize threat intelligence</li> <li>Reason about cloud infrastructure strategy to help ensure that solutions are the best fit for requirements</li> <li>Develop and evangelise security best practices amongst the wider Software Engineering team, automating secure software development processes where possible.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Key Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience</li> <li>A minimum of 8 years’ of combined experience in DevOps, SecOps, Platform Engineering or SRE roles, with at least 4 years of specific focus on SecOps.</li> <li>Offensive background: red team, pentest, or purple team experience</li> <li>Experience using infrastructure as code</li> <li>Strong understanding of networking and network security</li> <li>Strong background in Linux operating systems</li> <li>Strong expertise in Cloud security in AWS</li> <li>Proficiency in one or more scripting programming languages (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Desirable Skills:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Fluency in compliance frameworks such as SOC2 or ISO27001</li> <li>Systems programming in Go or Rust</li> <li>Experience with serverless technologies</li> <li>Experience with Typescript</li> <li>Interest in the IoT and renewable energy industry</li> </ul> <p><strong>You Are:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Impact-Driven:</strong> Thrive in a small, agile team where your initiative and contributions make a significant impact.</li> <li><strong>Curious and Enthusiastic:</strong> Eager to embrace new challenges and continuously expand your skill set.</li> <li><strong>A Self-Starter: </strong>Capable of managing your own workload and deadlines while taking personal responsibility for your tasks.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Benefits:</strong></p> <p>We’re dedicated to creating a remarkable employee experience. At Lunar, competitive base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Lunar employees also have the opportunity to become Lunar shareholders by getting equity in a fast-growing company and participating in our employee stock program.</p> <p><em>Additional benefits include: </em></p> <ul> <li>Competitive salary and stock options package</li> <li>Private Medical Insurance scheme through BUPA (medical history disregarded)</li> <li>A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash</li> <li>5% employer contributions pension matching</li> <li>A budget for work related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days</li> <li>Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit</li> <li>Access to Spill - Mental Health Support platform</li> <li>Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay</li> <li>25 days annual holiday entitlement + 8 Bank Holidays</li> <li>Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences</li> </ul> <p><strong>Duration: </strong>Full-Time</p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>Fully remote within the UK, but you are welcome any time at our office in Spitalfields, London (UK), as often as you like.</p> <p><strong>Our DE&I Philosophy:</strong> Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.</p> <p> </p>

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