Senior Platform Security Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Platform Security Engineer About Skyhigh Security: Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry. Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency. Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company. Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self. We are on these too! Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @SkyhighSecurity . Role Overview: Skyhigh Security is hiring a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Environments and Core Tooling. In this high-impact, technical role, you will be a vital player in maintaining, automating, and securing our developer labs and test environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and highly secure. You will take proactive, senior-level responsibility for the day-to-day security architecture and automation of our non-production environments. Your impact will be measured by your ability to keep our complex developer labs running smoothly, collaborate effectively with local team security champions, and build the automated auditing systems that ensure long-term compliance with our security policies. You must have solid, hands-on technical expertise in on-premises virtualization, configuration automation, and systems-level security to work effectively within the Engineering Excellence team. You’ll build strong collaborative relationships with distributed Engineering teams, Security Champions, and Operations to ensure our non-production environments remain robust and secure without slowing down developer velocity. Senior Platform Security Engineer – Engineering Excellence Skyhigh Security is hiring a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Environments and Core Tooling. In this high-impact, technical role, you will be a vital player in maintaining, automating, and securing our developer labs and test environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and highly secure. You will take proactive, senior-level responsibility for the day-to-day security architecture and automation of our non-production environments . Your impact will be measured by your ability to keep our complex developer labs running smoothly, collaborate effectively with local team security champions, and build the automated auditing systems that ensure long-term compliance with our security policies. You must have solid, hands-on technical expertise in on-premises virtualization, configuration automation, and systems-level security to work effectively within the Engineering Excellence team. You’ll build strong collaborative relationships with distributed Engineering teams, Security Champions, and Operations to ensure our non-production environments remain robust and secure without slowing down developer velocity. Responsibilities Lab & Environment Architecture: Drive the technical maintenance, optimization, and scaling of our developer labs and test environments to ensure high availability and performance. Establish Technical Auditing: Design and execute automated, systematic audits across all on-premise and mixed-OS engineering environments to verify that local teams adhere to established security standards. Collaborate with Security Champions: Partner directly with local security champions across different teams to support them in implementing and maintaining their local security plans. Build Shared Security Capabilities: Design and deploy robust security capabilities specifically for shared resources, including common labs and shared environments. Maintain Platform Security Standards: Keep environment security policies up to date, ensuring they reflect current engineering standards and evolving security landscapes. Operational Security Alignment: Ensure that shared environment configurations, access controls, and network boundaries are continuously aligned with corporate security guidelines. Requirements Environment & Lab Administration: Extensive, hands-on experience maintaining complex test environments, developer labs, staging infrastructures, or container registries in a modern software engineering organization. Systems Security Mindset: A strong understanding of core security principles (e.g, Identity & Access Management, network segmentation, least privilege) applied to on-premises systems and networks. Automated Auditing & Drift Detection: Ability to design systems that systematically track, document, and validate security compliance across multiple teams. Collaborative Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work constructively with distributed teams and security champions, acting as a helpful partner rather than a rigid blocker. Adaptability & Drive: Demonstrated ability to manage varied technical challenges—from complex network troubleshooting to security enforcement—with a self-motivated drive for results. Tooling Requirements Deep Core Expertise Configuration Management & IaC: Strong hands-on experience writing and modifying Puppet manifests, Ansible playbooks, or Terraform templates to automate environment configurations Software Supply Chain Security: Experience leveraging Artifactory to govern open-source dependencies, and Black Duck to enforce vulnerability checking. On-Premises Tooling & Automation: Practical experience deploying application layers using Docker, managing Docker registries, configuring on-premises Kubernetes deployments utilizing Helm charts , and working with dynamic VM environments. Core Network Services Layer: Understanding the operation of high-availability IPAM services and dynamic DNS/Kerberos environments. CI/CD Pipeline Operations: Solid experience utilizing Jenkins or GitHub Actions to orchestrate lab deployments, provision VM templates, and support build runners Broad / Functional Competency AWS Cloud Fundamentals: Basic understanding of AWS structures, including AWS security groups, IAM access keys, and public cloud VPC boundaries. Container Orchestration: General familiarity deploying workloads to cloud-based Kubernetes platforms (utilizing Helm charts or basic ArgoCD continuous delivery configurations). Security & Compliance Tools: Familiarity with vulnerability scanners (e.g., Trivy, Snyk) or basic configuration auditing tools. Multi-Platform OS: Experience managing configurations across mixed environments, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you’re excited to safeguard modern cloud engineering environments and support developer labs at scale, we’d love to hear from you. Company Benefits and Perks: We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees. Retirement Plans Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage Paid Time Off Paid Parental Leave Support for Community Involvement We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status. Our Commitment to You : At Skyhigh Security, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications. Skyhigh Security conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information—such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number—during the interview process. Skyhigh Security also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Skyhigh Security will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.