About the company
Parity Technologies Deutschland GmbH The Company Parity is a core blockchain infrastructure company. We are building the future of blockchain technology, with an open-source architecture that will enable people to create better institutions through technology. Parity was founded by some of the most influential entrepreneurs and visionaries in the Blockchain and Crypto space. The company has scaled rapidly in the last 6 years to become one of the world’s most accomplished blockchain companies. It has over 300 team members and global operations with offices in London, Berlin and Lisbon. This is an incredible time to join the business as you will be joining a expanding Finance function based in Berlin and helping to build out finance processes and supporting company wide initiatives. There are fantastic growth opportunities on offer, as the business scales you will develop alongside the team to provide information for business decisions and improve operations. The workplace environment is dynamic with entrepreneurial flair always encouraged. The company has taken a modern approach to work-life balance, with flexibility to work from our central Berlin office and from home.
Job Summary
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.)
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