Arctic Wolf, with its unicorn valuation, is the leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry—cybersecurity. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience.
Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Lead Cloud Security Developer to be part of making this happen.
About the Role
As a Lead Cloud Security Developer, you will be an essential part of the Cloud Security team, focused on ensuring the security of the Arctic Wolf infrastructure through the continual improvement of security tooling, automation, and engagement with internal stakeholders. This is a hands-on position with a strong focus on automating cloud security (Protect and Detect) and continually raising the bar for Cloud Security. You will work largely within AWS (Azure coming soon!), and we do everything-as-code.
The focus of this role is on helping lead improvements to our ability to Protect and Detect within our product space - defining, deploying, managing and improving the use and usability of cloud and other infrastructure security tooling. This means services like GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub, Detective, Inspector, SSM, Security Lake, as well as platforms like Kubernetes.
In addition, you will help lead the continuous effort to improve and simplify access control into and throughout our Cloud environments, with work largely focused on AWS IAM and CloudTrail Lake, along with custom tooling to enable least-privilege and just-in-time access.
Finally, you will help get to the root of security risks and events at Arctic Wolf - acting as an escalation point for incidents, engaging with teams to support design improvements, engaging with vendors for roadmaps, providing feedback and driving improvement, and always looking at how we can automate away toil. You will work with our security tooling and vendors to drive improvements.
This work will be heavily focused on AWS, but will also branch out to include Azure and GCP, as well as delving into moving forward security for other platforms like Kubernetes.
What you might accomplish in the first six months, based on your interests:
Identify a gap, then define, deploy and operationalize a new AWS security service or feature using IaC
Research and enable new features, operationalize, and grow usage of new and existing security tooling
Act as a SME in response to infrastructure security events and incidents, follow up with RCA and help stop repeats
Automate reporting and remediation of security findings through tools like EventBridge, Lambda, Jira, Slack, Security Hub
Improve automation, data collection, reporting, usability, or add features around Access Control
Lead the improvement of security in a problem domain (host based, containers, IAM, Lambda, APIs, etc)
Drive understanding and remediation of risks throughout our cloud infrastructure
Define and lead improvements to CI/CD to improve guardrails and gates to production
Your Responsibilities:
Take ownership of strategic problems, work with internal security teams, research and development, and product functions to deliver actionable solutions that will lower risk
Stay current on the cloud security landscape, advocate for useful advances, and help set and implement security direction
Define and maintain our security toolset, ensuring that it is scalable and automated
Drive improved security monitoring for platforms, infrastructure, and code
Support remediation of infrastructure security problems across the product landscape
Build significant automation to remove the operational toil for the Cloud Security and other teams
Help set the direction for security data, deploy, run, and improve business intelligence tools, driving a reduction in risk through the organization and pretty much anything else related to ensuring we stay ahead of bad actors
Technical Skills
Multiple years and/or major projects of experience in AWS, particularly using AWS security services (GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Detective, IAM Access Analyzer, IAM, Security Hub)
Multiple years and/or projects focused on using IaC (CloudFormation, Terraform) to manage and deploy services
Significant experience with programming languages (Python, Go) and libraries (boto3, troposphere)
Comfortable working with security/related services like KMS, ACM, Athena, CloudWatch, SSM
Comfortable working with AWS Lambda - writing, deployment, operations
Comfort with CI/CD systems, particularly automating security checks and integrations with other tools
Personality and Perspective
Unwavering desire to automate away large portions of your work
Comfortable and capable of working and communicating via Slack, Zoom calls, Jira tickets, reaching across organizations and facilitating improved communications to help keep the Cloud Security Group engaged and approachable throughout the company
Able to work independently, know when to ask for help, and work at various levels of the business to gather useful information, requirements, and objectives
Unafraid of ambiguity - proficient at taking an idea, soliciting feedback and input, then figuring out how to translate an idea to workunits and then to reality
Lover of well written documentation
Understanding of all that’s required to run a service in production (ex:deployment, monitoring, metrics, logging, tracing, scaling, access controls, etc)
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability and desire to be prescriptive and apply your deep knowledge oftechnology to solving problems at scale
Comfortable working with a team, sharing knowledge, and improving us through your experience and knowledge
A advocate for Cloud Security
Bonus stuff
Battle scars from working in a multi-region, multi-account, multi-cloudenvironment
Certifications in your cloud(s) of choice
Time spent doing Big Data or big data pipeline work, working with large data sets
Knowledge of networking, network security, common services and protocols (ex: DNS)
Technology that you may work with while you are here:
Cloud: GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Security Hub, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, security groups, VPC flow logs, certificate management (ACM), key management (KMS), Athena, EKS, Inspector,Lambda and other serverless technology, Terraform, Azure, GCP, WAF,Shield
Platforms: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, ElasticSearch, Kafka
Programming: Go, Python
CI/CD: GitHub, Github Actions, Harness
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, CloudWatch
About Arctic Wolf:
At Arctic Wolf we’re cultivating a collaborative and productive work environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and ideas to make our teams even stronger as we grow globally. We’ve been named among the list of Top Workplaces in USA, Minnesota (2021-2024), and Texas (2023-2024), Best Places to Work San Antonio (2023, 2024) and Minneapolis/St. Paul (2022-2024), Great Place to Work - Canada (2021-2024), and on the list of Best Workplaces in Technology (2024) in Canada. As well as on Fortune’s Best Place to Work for Millennials (2023) and Top Technology Workplace (2023) lists.
Our Values
Arctic Wolf recognizes that success comes from delighting our customers, so we work together to ensure that happens every day. We believe in diversity and inclusion, and truly value the unique qualities and unique perspectives all employees bring to the organization. And we appreciate that—by protecting people’s and organizations’ sensitive data and seeking to end cyber risk— we get to work in an industry that is fundamental to the greater good.
We celebrate unique perspectives by creating a platform for all voices to be heard through our Pack Unity program. We encourage all employees to join or create a new alliance. See more about our Pack Unity here.
We also believe and practice corporate responsibility, and have recently joined the Pledge 1% Movement, ensuring that we continue to give back to our community. We know that through our mission to End Cyber Risk we will continue to engage and give back to our communities.
All wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:
Equity for all employees
Flexible time off, paid volunteer days, and paid parental leave
401k & RRSP matching program
Enhanced maternity leave and fertility support services
Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health services
Training and career development programs
Arctic Wolf is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. Arctic Wolf is committed to fostering a welcoming, accessible, respectful, and inclusive environment ensuring equal access and participation for people with disabilities. As such, we strive to make our entire employee experience as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for candidates and employees with disabilities and/or other specific needs where possible. Please let us know if you require any accommodations by emailing recruiting@arcticwolf.com.
Security Requirements:
Conducts duties and responsibilities in accordance with AWN’s Information Security policies, standards, processes and controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of AWN business information (in accordance with our employee handbook and corporate policies).
Background checks are required for this position.