Security Engineer - Infrastructure Protection Tooling

Careem

Dubai, UAE

Ref: OP782-626

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Description

Careem is the MENA regions leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With a strong track-record of growth, we now operate in 100+ cities across 14 countries and host over 25 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.

About the role

We're looking for Infrastructure Security Engineers to join Careem. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills and proven industry security experience to better protect our corporate and production infrastructure. Working from our Dubai basecamp, you will help implement safer systems, endpoints, and networks that are resilient to intrusions and attacks to ensure the safety of our business and Careem users' data.

What you'll do:

- Design and implement secure solutions for orchestration, deployment configuration, and debugging of cloud services
- Design and implement services supporting the security of Careem's large client and server footprint
- Conduct in-depth security reviews of applications, production, and business integrations
- Provide security advice and guidance across Careem as new systems are developed
- Harden the perimeter of our environments by applying advanced networking techniques
- Develop processes and automation for user lifecycle and role management

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of industry experience in security
- A team-player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience designing and deploying large systems to AWS
- Proven expertise in system and network security topics such as authentication, cryptography, intrusion detection systems (IDS), firewalls, and VPNs
- Knowledge of system-level attacks and mitigation methods in Linux, macOS, or Windows
- Detailed technical knowledge in endpoint hardening
- Experience working with vendors and reviewing challenging integrations
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of industry experience in security
- A team-player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Salary package

- Competitive salary and equity shares
- 25 working days annual leave
- Entrepreneurial working environment
- Flexible working arrangements
- Mentorship and career growth

About the Company

We are a brand that aims to simplify people's lives by revolutionizing the transportation industry. A brand that strives to inspire everyone it interacts with, and supports every single person who dares to believe. #BeCareem

Careem is the MENA region's leading ride-hailing service and newest Tech Unicorn. With 30% monthly growth, we now operate in 50+ cities across 11 countries and host over 6 million users. With our recent Series D funding success, we are positioned on the cusp of significant scale and well on target to deliver our goal of creating one million jobs in the region by 2018.

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