Infrastructure Security Engineer

About Us

Parity is one of the world’s most experienced companies building the core infrastructure behind blockchain — the system that allows information and value to be shared securely without needing an intermediary. We’re laying the foundation for a better web which respects the freedom and data of individuals and empowers developers to build better more trustworthy online services.

Our remote-first global team develop open-source software that anyone can use or improve. This includes Polkadot Polkadot SDK and Kusama — key parts of the Web3 tech stack the next generation of the internet. Our mission is to make Polkadot the most active and innovative community in blockchain powering a new era of connected and decentralised applications.

About the Team

The Security team is pivotal in helping infrastructure and release management teams to secure our networks operating systems containers pipelines and code. We are part of the Security team with a mission of reducing the impact of threats to Parity and its products bolstering their resilience against potential cyber threats.

About the Role

This is a crucial role where your understanding of people systems and security will allow you to advocate for and influence best practices in a diverse free thinking organisation while facilitating smooth development and implementation processes. It is a unique opportunity to help secure an innovative organisation where feedback is direct and honest and understands that a check box approach doesn’t get results.

• Advising Infra Engineering and IT teams on security topics and supporting their work from the security standpoint — maintaining things practical using a risk-based approach with a focus on following areas

  • Automation of security controls security hardening of the developer and IaC processes (building testing release) supply chain security (part of the build process) related metrics and monitoring/audits

  • Network Vm & container image and system hardening Cloud issues and misconfigurations

  • Endpoint Security Infrastructure Identity and Access Management SIEM Threat intelligence common misconfigs (DNS email networking etc.)

• Organising and performing penetration testing of our infrastructure and collaborating with external parties on those tests.

• Picking tools methods and approaches to maintain and improve the security stance of the company. (And we have a strong preference towards FOSS tooling when possible)

• Writing and enabling adoption of company-wide security standards and guidelines as well as implementing tools and automation to enable their deployment.

• Mentoring other team members on all matters related to security and IT and infrastructure engineering.

What We're Looking For

• Focused on outcomes (rather than activities) and outcome based delivery

• Ability to partner with multiple teams in order to tackle issues clarify requirements communicate with and convince stakeholders etc.

• Comfortable with a Linux-based tech stack (managed VMs SSH VPNs firewalls)

• Experience with Kubernetes (incl. managed) Terraform Ansible Github Gitlab ArgoCD Image registries

• Experience with various cloud platforms including Google Cloud non-managed providers

• We’d love it if you had an understanding of blockchain tech and associated tooling (wallets keys RPC nodes and indexers etc.)

About Working With Us

Joining Parity means joining team mates who are genuinely excited about the impact their projects are having and the opportunity to grow alongside some of the brightest minds in the Web3 space! You’ll work remotely and flexibly while still getting to meet your team mates throughout the year at team and company-wide retreats.

Upon receiving an offer all candidates undergo a background check through Zinc our trusted third-party provider. Team members will be taken on as a contractor via our UK entity . View our Applicant Notice to see how we use your data.

Parity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome diversity in our global team and care about everyone in our collective feeling included and welcome.

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