Your Profile – Who you are: You are an exceptional technical operations engineer that craves solving real-world problems helping people through digital transformations. You are a naturally energetic, structured and creative person who believes strong security is a fundamental part of a true platform and believes to achieve through excellent infrastructure in development, deployment, monitoring and incident management. You are passionate to build and maintain culture, processes, and tools around security. You have a history of sticking with tough problems and love solving them with your team. You demonstrate a go-getter attitude to drive solutions to problems. You are able to foster teamwork, promote team collaboration and communication, and gauge project progress. Your team expects you to be personable, use respectable manners, maintain stable composure, demonstrate a positive attitude, able to work under pressure and has multi-tasking capabilities.

You understand the importance and impact that good security operations can have on customers and the positive ripple effects that it can have across an entire engineering organization. You are a quick learner who is motivated to automate complex systems with collaboratively designed tools and processes.

Your Work: As a member of Ascend Commerce Technology team, you will be a key contributor as a Technical Operations Engineer responsible for efficient operation of the platform infrastructure of Ascend Commerce with an emphasis in security. The platform will enable building leading-edge enterprise and consumer-facing products servicing a variety of critically important use cases in B2B and B2C. You will have the opportunity to work hand in hand in a truly cross-functional matrix organization.

• Provide security consultation in a project-based environment as well as assisting operational of IT Security components with functional security requirements.
• Analysis of technical requirements to design and deliver both Infrastructure and IT Security solutions and Assessment.
• Conduct and perform advanced vulnerability and penetration testing/assessments that also require in-depth analysis of IT controls applied to network infrastructure, visualized servers, databases, web applications and interfaces and supporting software infrastructure (document management, reporting).
• Track and manage security risks including review plans and monitor progress or remedial actions.
• Provides technical guidance on all systems in place to all levels of Information Technology staff
• Maintain infrastructure, Application and security architecture documentation, guidelines and provide support to projects involving enterprise wide applications and supporting hardware.
• Develop security automation test in CI/CD pipeline with deployment automations such as Kubernetes based platform, both on premises and on a multi-cloud infrastructure

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, MIS, IT or related field with 4-5 year experiences in the computer security area.
• Experience in E2E security design and implementation including network, data, platform, and application
• Experience in facilitating information security risk assessments.
• Technical writing, documentation development, process mapping, and visual communication skills.
• Professional certificates related to work (e.g. OSCP, CISSP, CISM, CEH, Sec+ or similar general security certification) is desirable
• Solid understanding of cloud computing design and security principles in cloud environments like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• A clear understanding of Micro Service Architecture
• Experience in High Availability Services and Data
• Solid experience in platform automation/configuration management tools like OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet
• Has knowledge in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Nagios, AppManager, DataDog
• Has knowledge in incident management systems like PagerDuty, OpsGenie
• Ability to take On Call Rotation
• Communication
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Collaborative design and peer-reviews are bread-and-butter of our engineering culture!
• Good command of English