Voltus

Clean Energy

SecurityEngineer

$140–160k United States; Canada FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Security Engineer at Voltus. Skills: AWS Security, Infrastructure as Code, Security Monitoring, GRC. Build detections. Build security signal pipelines”

What You'll Achieve.

Deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and enhance Platform and tools; Identify infrastructure gaps; Create roadmap; Close infrastructure gaps; Improve security posture

Industry & Context.

Clean Energy
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot; Identify infrastructure gaps; Close infrastructure gaps; Incident investigation; Remediation

Eligibility Requirements

Include link to GitHub account, Do not sponsor visas or transfers, Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location, Limitations on where employees are able to work for regulatory and security reasons, Working primarily from home country, Working while traveling to other countries must be approved

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4–7 years of security engineering experience, Software development experience with Go or Python, Proven AWS Security Experience (IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty), Direct experience supporting a SOC 2 Type 2 audit cycle, Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Experience with containers such as Docker, Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog or Prometheus, Risk awareness, Authorization to work from home location (US or Canada)

Nice to Have

Experience at a SaaS or remote-first company, Familiarity with compliance requirements such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR, CISSP certification, AWS Security Specialty certification, GIAC certification

What You'll Do.

Build security signal pipelines

Serve as subject matter expert

Define security monitoring practices

Set up security monitoring

Act as technical lead

Investigate security incidents

Remediate security incidents

Improve Terraform Modules

Improve Infrastructure as Code

Develop vulnerability monitoring strategy

Integrate vulnerability monitoring

Build security automation

Partner on AWS security engineering

Operate SOC 2 evidence collection

Drive ISO 27001 implementation

Perform risk assessments

Ensure infrastructure compliance

Run vendor risk reviews

Run subprocessor risk reviews

Respond to customer questionnaires

Respond to external inquiries

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with infrastructure/IT team(s); Partner with Infrastructure; Mentor and enable other team members

Communication Scope

Respond to customer security questionnaires; Respond to external inquiries

Process & Methodology

Create roadmap, Drive ISO 27001 implementation

Full Job Description

## Description Company Description Voltus is the leading platform connecting distributed energy resources to electricity markets, delivering less expensive, more reliable, and more sustainable electricity. Our commercial and industrial customers and grid services partners generate cash by allowing Voltus to maximize the value of their flexible load, distributed generation, energy storage, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle resources in these markets. Job Description Are you interested in building the technical foundation of the worldwide transition to clean energy? Do you enjoy working with a highly motivated and talented team to deliver mission-critical software? Voltus is growing our Security Team to help deploy, manage, troubleshoot, and enhance our Platform and tools for its internal and external customers.   You’ll help us identify our infrastructure gaps from a security perspective, create a roadmap, and work with the infrastructure/IT team(s) to close our gaps. This role splits time roughly 60% technical engineering and 40% governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). ## Responsibilities Engineering and Operations Build detections and security signal pipelines in Datadog. Serve as the subject matter expert on AWS Cloud and on-prem infrastructure security. Define and set up AWS and on-prem Security Monitoring/Best Practices Strategy. Act as the technical lead during security incidents, including investigation and remediation. Improve Terraform Modules and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to follow security best practices. Develop and implement a vulnerability monitoring strategy and integrate it into CI/CD pipelines. Build security automation using Python, scripting, and APIs. Partner with Infrastructure on AWS security engineering, including IAM, KMS, and network segmentation. Governance, Risk, and Compliance Operate SOC 2 Type 2 evidence collection and audit response. Drive ISO 27001 implementation work, including risk assessments and control mapping. Ensure inf

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