Manager, Security Engineering
Manager, Security Engineering
LEADERSHIP | TECHNOLOGY | CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
We're looking for a strong Team Lead that is ready for the next step in their career. We would love to partner with you on your journey into becoming a manager. We’re looking for a person who desires to develop their strategic managerial skills, while still building upon raw technical skills. We’re looking for a person who loves the DevOps and Agile world of software engineering and wants to integrate these practices into AppSec and SecOps projects. We’re looking for the person who not only loves the Cloud, but hungers to work on security strategies in a serverless space. If you are a growing team lead who desires a company that invests in its employee’s careers, promotes mentorship at all levels, and believes that all employees can make a difference, then we are looking for you.
Hello, we're A Cloud Guru
Our friends call us ACG.
A Cloud Guru was built by engineers for everyone, everywhere. Here, you’ll have the freedom to follow your curiosity. We’re not afraid to just try, because when you’re working with cutting edge technologies, experimentation and trying out new ideas have to be encouraged and celebrated. Our engineers are building the world’s largest (and most awesome) cloud learning platform. Why? Our mission is to teach the world to cloud. Our fun, practical courses have helped over 1.5 million people learn to cloud, and we’re just getting started.
We’re not a training company that just decided to sell training courses. We grew up out of the cloud ecosystem. We were a bunch of cloud engineers who pulled people together to create a training platform. That’s why we’re genuinely passionate about what we create. And we are known for practicing what we preach.
What makes the Product & Technology team awesome...
Learning to cloud means unlocking a world of possibilities for our students. Using the latest tech, we design the tools to teach people cloud faster and better. The team is talented (and a little quirky), and we’re all in it together.
- Cutting-edge tech We’ve built a product using cloud-first Serverless Architecture with tools like Lambda, API Gateway, GraphQL and ReactJS.
- Founded by engineers Having a CEO who’s also an engineer is nice — he knows the effort it takes to make things awesome.
- We don’t bite We’re friendly, down-to-earth, and collaborative. There are no high-performing jerks and no heroes. Just great teams.
- Hungry and humble We’re dedicated to learning all the things to create the best product possible.
You'll do well at ACG if you're open to learning and trying new things, and you like to be surrounded by other friendly, passionate and driven people. –Natasja, Makeup Guru (and Software Developer)
As a Manager, Security Engineering at ACG, you’ll get to:
- Define your career goals and develop your skills as a leader with the guidance and support of an organization that invests in you.
- Coach and learn from a team of Security professionals.
- Deliver and adapt new security tools, policies, and controls in an Agile delivery ecosystem.
- Coordinate Security Council meetings where you will collaborate with representatives across the business to build solid security and compliance systems
- Drive the shift-left of security with DevSecOps practices so that engineers are empowered to design secure software from the beginning
- Champion a shared responsibility for security.tEngage key stakeholders at all levels of the
We are looking for someone who can:
- Value individuals and embrace diversity by integrating differences and promoting diversity and inclusion across teams
- Lead a team of highly technical security professionals, providing direction, coaching, mentoring and development to direct reports
- Build and promote a culture of collaboration, learning, knowledge sharing and experimentation
- Develop and maintain a vision for the Security team that supports ACG’s strategic goals, builds upon ACG’s DevOps and Agile culture, and empowers ACG to teach Cloud technology
- Build outcome based strategies for security, focusing on delivering value sooner and reacting to feedback with ease and precision
- Collaborate with senior Product & Engineering leaders, Legal Council, Customer Support and other departments to build and maintain application security initiatives and automation efforts
- Develop and provide strategy to the Security team’s existing tooling and processes
What you bring to the table
We focus on hiring values aligned people, because we believe the right person can learn all the things to be successful in their role. Self-confidence plays a big part in what you apply for. We encourage all job applicants to apply even if they are nervous to do so. College degrees aren't required for any roles, and career gaps or switches are totally welcome.
- Adaptive mindset for security in a serverless world
- DevSecOps strategies to empower engineers to make great security decisions
- 1-3 years experience leading smaller App Sec and/or Sec Ops Engineering teams, uplifting technical capabilities of the team and delivering security projects
- Experience implementing security tools or processes
- Experience working within governance and compliance policies, processes, and tooling in AWS
- Experience assisting engineers detect, track, and resolve application security vulnerabilities, such as OWASP top 10.
- Experience defining application security risk, application threat modeling and policy reviews
- Desire to build all of the above into a high performing Agile Product and Engineering Department
- A desire to earn a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) or other Security Certification
More than a job
Where you work isn’t just a career decision -- it’s a life decision. We get it. That’s why we want all of our Gurus to feel a sense of belonging that comes from feeling supported in all areas of their lives. Everyone has family, friends and interests outside of their careers, so we offer perks and benefits to make work, work better for you.
- 4 weeks PTO, plus 10 sick days, and holidays. Because even when your office is your living room, we all need time to unplug.
- Remotely awesome. Get $500 to level up your home office, monthly snack boxes, free Headspace access, weekly lunch funds, and $50 monthly for internet.
- Human connection. Get to know the Gurus with good times and get-togethers inspired by our values, virtual happy hours, lunchtime trivia, or a socially distanced drive-in movie.
- Gender-neutral paid parental leave. Expanding your family? We offer 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, and reimburse up to $10,000 for eligible adoption expenses.
- $1,000 continuing education budget. All Gurus get $250 a quarter to spend on personal development, and 2 hours each week reserved for learning something new.
Remote where?
The A Cloud Guru team has grown a lot since it was just two brothers with a dream of teaching the world to cloud! We now employ gurus in 30 states of the USA as well as in Australia and the UK. For the time being that’s as far as we can go. We won’t bore you with the details, but setting up the extra operations we would need to employ people in new states or countries is a little bit more expensive than replicating your database in another AZ, if you know what we mean. So as much as we would love to have staff in as many countries as we have students, we are only opening this role to applicants in areas we currently have operations.
If you’re not sure if your US state is included, please still apply! We will let you know if you are in a state that we currently don’t have operations. If anything changes we will reach back out.
Applying for a job can feel intimidating and like a full-time job of its own. You shouldn’t have to burn through a week of sick time or all your best out-of-office excuses just to put feelers out for a new career opportunity. We want to be as transparent about the process as possible to help ease your mind. It’s our goal to provide you a fair, efficient interviewing experience that respects you and your time — and to do it all with a sidecar of delight.
Once you submit an application, we’ll review it. If you’re a good fit, you’ll have an initial chat with a recruiter over the phone. A phone interview with a manager typically follows. Depending on your role, you might then be asked to do a little homework (but nothing too time consuming). Then we’ll schedule a Zoom call to meet other members of the team, answer any questions you have, and give you a feel for what it’s really like to work at ACG. If you're on the fence, just give it a try.
Keep being awesome, Cloud Gurus.