Cloud Security Engineer (m/f/d)

About the Position

Cloud Security Engineer (m/f/d)

Munich, Remote

Full or part-time

Permanent employee

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About the Role

Checkmk is bringing its industry-leading monitoring solution to the cloud. We have built a robust, cloud-native foundation on AWS, and we are now looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to lead the next phase of our security evolution.

In this role, you won’t be building from a blank slate. Instead, you will partner with our senior software and operations engineers to harden, automate, and scale our existing security frameworks. You are the expert who will move us to "world-class resilience."

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Responsibilities

• Lead the Security Evolution: Take ownership of our security roadmap, moving from a developer-led security model to a specialized, automated DevSecOps practice.
• Advanced AWS Hardening: Deepen our infrastructure security by implementing advanced AWS configurations (e.g., Service Control Policies, refined IAM boundaries, and specialized GuardDuty/Macie integration).
• Automate the "Shift-Left": Integrate sophisticated security gates into our existing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that hardening is a silent, automated partner to our deployment process.
• Kubernetes Security Specialist: Enhance our EKS security posture, implementing advanced network policies, runtime security, and automated vulnerability remediation.
• Bridge the Gap: Act as the primary consultant for the engineering team, helping to balance rapid feature development with high-assurance security standards.

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Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years in Cloud Security, with a focus on high-available SaaS products.
• AWS Power User: Proven track record of securing complex AWS environments. You know how to leverage AWS-native security tools to their full potential without creating friction for developers.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Expert in Terraform, believing that if a security policy isn't in code, it doesn't exist.
• Container & K8s Depth: Deep knowledge of the CNCF security landscape - you know how to protect the cluster, the pod, and the code.
• Collaborative Leadership: A "Security Builder and Enabler," not a "Security Blocker." You enjoy teaching others and building consensus on technical standards.
• Analytical Mindset: Enjoy the "chess game" of security - anticipating risks before they manifest and building systems that fail safely.
• Language: Business fluent English; German is a plus.

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We Offer

• The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast-growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities.
• Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment.
• Workation: we offer the opportunity to work 6 weeks within the EU to extend, for example, your vacation.
• With the wide range of sports and wellness offers from Wellpass, you can choose from over 9,000 sports and wellness offers.
• An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision-making within flat hierarchies.
• A unique corporate culture where we emphasize equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• A wide range of education and training opportunities.
• Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central districts of Munich.
• An attractive salary.
• Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party, and more) in a familiar atmosphere.

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About the Company

We are the creators of Checkmk, a leading hybrid IT monitoring software for both cloud-native and traditional infrastructures and applications. Checkmk is available as an open-source and commercial edition. We are a strong team of software developers and DevOps, open-source enthusiasts, and nerds who are passionate about helping small and large companies run their complex IT infrastructures reliably.

Over the last years, we have grown from 20 to over 250 employees to support our customer growth in Europe, the US, and beyond. Our colleagues currently work from our Munich HQ as well as across Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Spain, Poland, USA, UK, Singapore, and Malaysia.

We are a dynamic, fast-growing, and easy-going company where positive collaboration is very important. We are more than just colleagues; we have a strong team and a great customer community. For us, high autonomy and flat hierarchies are not just words on paper, but everyday life. With us, you don’t work as one of hundreds or on purely theoretical questions but have an immediate positive influence.

With our product, we make the lives of thousands of administrators easier and help them in coping with the increasing complexity of IT. Our customers love our product, and your work helps to keep it that way!

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Interested? Then contact us now!

You can get insights about working@checkmk at: www.kununu.com/de/checkmk