Overview

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.  Founded in 2011 and with over 4 million clients, Kraken is one of the world’s largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges and we’re growing faster than ever. Our range of successful products are playing an important role in the mainstream adoption of crypto assets.  We attract people who constantly push themselves to think differently and chart exciting new paths in a rapidly growing industry. Kraken is a diverse group of dreamers and doers who see value in being radically transparent. Let’s change the way the world thinks about money! Join the revolution!

About the Role

This role is fully remote, North American time zones preferred

If you thrive in a challenging, fun and fast-paced environment, the Secure Cloud Engineer at Kraken is for you!

The secure cloud engineer role plays a key role in ensuring the security of our cloud infrastructure and our information security policy. This person will help identify security gaps and drive remediation activities to close those gaps. This position plays an integral role in defining and assessing Kraken’s security strategy, architecture and best practices as well as contributes to maturing the company’s infrastructure security architecture and technology frameworks.

Not only is this role a strategic hands-on role that is critical to the continuing success of Kraken, you will be responsible for the security for one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative self-starter with the ability to imagine and build a best-in-class IT organization and a world class culture.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the security of public cloud and SaaS-based application security utilized by the organization
  • Partner with key business functions to determine business requirements to inform IT service and Security / Compliance needs
  • Engage in selection, development, customization, and deployment of critical applications, including CRM, HRIS, Finance/Accounting, Collaboration, Productivity Management, and SaaS, etc.
  • Oversee the implementation, and maintenance of cloud-based services
  • Contribute to the Global IT help desk to support Kraken’s global workforce
  • Contribute to the development of best practices within our IT & Security team
  • Continually improve and optimize company efficiency through process improvement and automation
  • Ensure systems and organization operate with the absolute highest level of security

Requirements

  • 5 or more years in an IT role focused on cloud security
  • Experience with security frameworks such as ISO, CSA and PCI
  • Ability to thrive in a high-growth, fast-paced, and dynamic environment
  • Experience leading the deployment of multiple enterprise / SaaS applications
  • Hands-on technical expertise – scripting and/or programming languages, hardware configuration, automation, etc
  • Thorough knowledge of operating systems, networking fundamentals and protocols
  • Thorough experience in web operations: configuration/maintenance of web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems, messaging systems, virtualization
  • Strong knowledge of systems operations, including security, monitoring, logging, etc
  • Deep experience with security best practices, including knowledge of leading security applications and operations

We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique backgrounds and experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives.