Security Engineer at Acquia

Acquia helps ambitious global brands build meaningful digital customer experiences. By leveraging the power of open source Drupal, our Digital Experience Platform allows marketing and IT teams to quickly launch and manage digital products that drive engagement and business growth. As a recognized market leader and one of the top software companies globally, we operate across more than 30 countries. We are looking for a dedicated Security Engineer to join our team and help protect the infrastructure supporting some of the largest websites in the world. If you enjoy identifying vulnerabilities, thinking like an attacker to test cloud services, and simplifying compliance processes, we invite you to help us build for the future.

Key outcomes

• Serve as a Security Champion within our agile engineering team, taking full ownership of the services you build and maintain.
• Design, research, and validate cloud hosting architectures by applying your deep knowledge of web, database, and operating systems.
• Resolve complex production issues within our distributed systems.

Requirements

• Between 2 and 6 years of relevant professional experience.
• Practical experience with cloud security and compliance in AWS, including familiarity with firewalls, IDS/IPS, DDoS prevention, and standards like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or FedRAMP.
• A strong background in software development using general-purpose programming languages.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and a passion for website delivery architecture.
• Extensive experience with the LAMP stack, specifically Linux, Apache, and MySQL.
• Proficiency with Linux packaging systems, including Debian, RPM, RHEL, and Ubuntu.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts such as TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, HTTP caching, and VPNs.
• A holistic grasp of hosting, ranging from the network layer up to the application layer.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, combined with the ability to drive results across diverse teams.
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in software development using Python or Go.
• Experience performing threat modeling, particularly for web applications and APIs.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or LXC.
• Practical experience securing Kubernetes deployments according to hard multi-tenancy guidelines.

Compensation

We offer the flexibility of a remote work environment for this full-time position.

How to apply

If you are interested in joining our team, please submit your application through our official portal. We review all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, gender, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law, and we look forward to learning more about your background.