Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Who We are

Building on its rich heritage, Zinnia is transforming the way life and annuity products are created, sold, and administered – from lead to origination to claims – through Zinnia Open Insurance. We’re addressing the new realities of the marketplace, and we understand what consumers want and deserve: a great experience from the moment they consider these products until their policies pay out.

Zinnia Open Insurance is advanced data-driven technology that accelerates innovation, enables unrivaled speed-to-market, deepens relationships with policyholders, and empowers better risk-based outcomes. Open transforms the end-to-end experience to make everything faster, more transparent, and more collaborative for consumers, carriers, and advisors. Zinnia is a new tech company, but we’re not new to insurance. We’re L&A experts and technology innovators building Open Insurance to power exceptional experiences that evolve ahead of the marketplace. We’re Zinnia. And we’re Open. Join us, and experience Life, More Open.

Who Are You

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will leverage your development, security and architecture experience to mitigate risk and enable security controls for our cloud infrastructure. You will create security controls as code and scalable security architecture, as well as working prototypes and production solutions to reduce risk in the cloud environments. You’ll build partnerships with our Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering and IT teams to ensure Zinnia is doing all we can to protect the company’s and our customers’ data.

As a trusted advisor, you will partner with tech and business stakeholders and enable them. You will be able to coach, mentor, educate, advise on system design and architecture, implement/configure/monitor security tools, and help drive an appreciation for security. If you like to automate, shift security left, manage risk, and further enable business, then this role is for you.

In this role, you will…
● Collaborate and build relationships with the product engineering and SRE teams
●Identify risks across all cloud environments, and assist in architectural design to mitigate risks
●Secure Zinnia’s cloud platforms to ensure compliance with various best practice frameworks and requirements
●Partner with the security team, platform and security engineers to assist in the development of a scalable threat modeling program (and conduct them as well!) for our cloud environment
●Develop, deploy and maintain various security tools and their SOPs
●Develop, evaluate, and respond to alerts and events from the security tools
●Adopt automation to shift security to the left and make it scalable
●Triage, escalate, and remediate vulnerabilities found as part of vulnerability management program
●Be part of an on-call rotation supporting the platform
●Be a humble mentor for our talented team members

We’d love to hear from you if…

●9+ years of experience in a cloud security engineering or site reliability engineering role
●Extensive hands-on experience in GCP and/or AWS
●Extensive hands-on experience in securing Kubernetes and container orchestration technologies
●Experience in Python, or another programming language
●Experience in the development of security products or DevSecOps infrastructure
●Experience building and operationalizing SOAR, DevSecOps and IaC tools for cloud
●Familiarity with deployment automation tools such as Terraform, Helm, Atlantis, and BuildKite
●Familiarity with threat modeling
●Strong written and verbal communication skills
● Desire to build a cloud security program and coach junior engineers

You can expect…

●A competitive compensation plan
●Hybrid work from home and office model
●A flexible time off policy which includes unlimited wellness days, personal days and vacation time;
●Two volunteer days;
●A day off on your Birthday;
●A company paid top-tier health benefits plan and a telemedicine service;
●The opportunity to work with a fantastic team with a great culture;
●The opportunity to be part of an innovative and exciting company that is completely changing an outdated industry;
●The opportunity to grow professionally in a dynamic and fun environment; the online application on the careers section of our website. 

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