Cloud Security Engineer

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.

Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.

What’s the opportunity?

As a Cloud Security Engineer you will have experience in investigating advanced threats, detecting cloud-native attacker techniques, and securing AWS environments, with a focus on technical controls, incident response, and detection engineering. You will be working with other engineering teams to identify & mitigate risks across our cloud infrastructure. You will develop and enforce security measures within our cloud infrastructure, delivering a safe and secure engineering environment. This role requires a deep understanding of security best practices, the threat landscape, and the ability to implement and enforce robust security measures. You will identify and detect threats to our business and drive our response to security incidents. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in cloud computing, infrastructure as code, and possess a deep understanding of AWS services.

Become a Security Engineer of the Cloud Security team and join the globally distributed Information Security group, overseeing the security and trust of Intercom for 25,000+ businesses through defining and holding the bar for the security of our product.

What will I be doing?

As a Security Engineer on the cloud security engineering team you will

Experience designing and implementing AWS cloud security architectures, including VPC networking

Leverage cloud security tools (e.g., IAM, AWS WAF, Wiz/CNAPP) and SIEM to enhance security posture

Develop strategies, frameworks, automations and processes to advance the Detection and Response program.

Create Protective and Detective controls using open-source and closed-source intelligence sources to address gaps and detect potential intrusions.

Collaborate with product engineering teams to manage and resolve security incidents, ensuring effective containment and mitigation.

Automate security controls and compliance checks to maintain adherence to security standards.

Partner with infrastructure teams to expand automation and infrastructure as code practices for secure, scalable operations.

What skills do I need?

We recognise that sometimes these lists can appear as strict requirements, but that’s not the case. Even if you feel you have a subset of the experience below - that’s ok, we’d love to talk to you!

Experience in investigating advanced threats and detecting cloud-native attacker techniques using a modern detection engineering approach, with deep expertise in attacker behavior, technical controls, and diverse technologies.

Experienced in securing AWS environments, developing detections, and responding to security incidents, including containment, investigation, and recovery.

Solid understanding and demonstrated expertise managing AWS security controls and ensuring the security of cloud service offerings (IAM, VPC, firewalls/ACL, IDS/IPS, WAF, Linux hosts, serverless, etc.)

Proficiency in high-level programming language (e.g., Python, Ruby) for automation of security tasks.

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