[Remote] Platform Engineer (Security & Software)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tiger Resourcing Group is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer specializing in secure cloud-native infrastructure. The role focuses on strengthening security, reliability, and efficiency of the infrastructure supporting the product line, primarily through tactical and delivery-focused responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Mitigate security issues, including CVEs and penetration-testing findings
- Harden containers, Kubernetes clusters, application services and supporting cloud infrastructure
- Implement and maintain secrets management and credential-rotation processes
- Improve the platform’s security posture through least-privilege and zero-trust principles
- Monitor infrastructure for security incidents, configuration drift and control compliance
- Automate security updates, vulnerability remediation, compliance checks and environment hardening
- Support the secure development and operation of the company’s customer-facing software products
- Conduct user-access reviews and security tabletop exercises
- Maintain and improve security documentation, architecture diagrams and system diagrams
- Support existing and future security certifications and frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST
- Work closely with software engineering, technical and customer-support teams
Skills
- Approximately 3–6 years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Security Engineering or a closely related role
- Experience supporting infrastructure for a software product, SaaS platform or customer-facing application
- A software engineering or programming background, ideally with experience in a high-level language such as C#
- Strong hands-on experience securing production cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure or GCP
- Practical experience with containers, Kubernetes and application services
- Experience addressing vulnerabilities, applying security patches and remediating penetration-testing findings
- Understanding of secure software delivery, code security and cloud-native security practices
- Knowledge of security standards and frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and NIST
- Networking knowledge covering TLS, firewalls, VPNs and network segmentation
- Experience with automation, scripting, infrastructure as code or security tooling would be beneficial
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related engineering discipline
- Experience within traffic management, transportation technology or intelligent mobility would be desirable
- The strongest candidates are likely to have started their careers in software development, programming or product engineering before moving into Platform, DevOps, SRE or cloud security
- We are looking for someone who approaches infrastructure as a builder and engineer, rather than someone whose experience has primarily been centred around internal IT support or employee-facing corporate systems
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