Security Certification Engineer

Security Certification Engineer

Job Description:

Security Certification Engineer (Flexible Location)

SUSE is a growing company, with great products, a culture that fosters openness and friendship, and where many opportunities exist.

Product security and certification is the most important building block of the global IT ecosystem.

Our SUSE Security Team has nearly two decades of experience working on pro-active and reactive security to make our products outstanding. Join industry-leading professionals to ensure that our processes, infrastructure, and product are designed, operated, maintained and protected in accordance with these certifications and security standards as it applies to SUSE.

Location: EMEA (virtual).

Key Responsibilities:

- Developing frameworks and automation tools for security certifications

- Building certified product configurations and driving their compliance throughout the cycle

- Maintaining technical requirements defined by certification bodies

- Coordinating with production teams on implementing recommendations from certification labs

Candidate Profile:

- 5+ years of total computing experience in academia / FOSS / commercial sectors

- In-depth knowledge of Linux OS

- Scripting skills in any of Python, Bash, Perl

- Familiarity with security concepts and best practices

- Familiarity with Jira and Atlassian tools stack

- Hands on experience of handling XML and YAML formats

- Understanding of OVAL, XCCDF, CPE data formats and feeds

- Hands-on knowledge: SCAP scanning

- Bonus experience: STIG, PCI-DSS, CIS Benchmarks

- Bonus hands-on knowledge: Ansible, Salt

- Bonus knowledge: C programming

- Good communication level of English

What makes us different:

- You will find and can connect to highly skilled engineers at SUSE

- We provide many different products and endless opportunities to learn

- We help our employees to develop

- Our work environment is creative and productive

- You can work with and within an international team

- Our working hours are as flexible as possible

- We organize regular events (hackathons, workshops, outdoor events, ...) to build up relationships and friendship within and across teams

- At SUSE the opinion of the employee matters!

If you are successful for this position you'll have to pass pre-employment checks before joining us. The content of these checks may vary by country and position.

About SUSE:

SUSE®, a pioneer in open source software, provides reliable, interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility. More than 25 years of engineering excellence, exceptional service and an unrivaled partner ecosystem power the products and support that help our customers manage complexity, reduce cost, and confidently deliver mission-critical services. The lasting relationships we build allow us to adapt and deliver the smarter innovation they need to succeed—today and tomorrow. For more information, visit us at www.suse.com.

Job:

Engineering

SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.