Senior SecOps Engineer
Tala
Job Description
<h3>About <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a></h3><div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a> is AI-native credit infrastructure for the global majority, combining proprietary risk intelligence with an expanding network of capital and distribution partners to power credit access at scale. Backed by more than $500 million in funding, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a> has distributed more than $7 billion in capital to more than 13 million customers across Africa, Latin America, and Asia—building one of the most robust datasets on thin-file borrowers anywhere in the world. Our mission is simple yet bold: to unleash the economic power of the global majority. We are looking for daring, data-driven leaders passionate about building the trust and credit infrastructure for the global majority.</div><div>Our pioneering work and proven impact have earned us consistent recognition, including being named to:</div><div>CNBC’s Disruptor 50 for five years.</div><div>CNBC’s World's Top Fintech Companies for two consecutive years.</div><div>Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for nine consecutive years.</div><div>Visionary investors, persuaded by the economic power of the global majority, have committed half a billion dollars in equity and debt to <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a>'s success.</div><div>Given the global nature of our team, we operate on a remote-first approach with office hubs in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.</div><div>Most <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a>zens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/tala">Tala</a>, we’d love to hear from you!</div><h3>The Role </h3><p>We are currently seeking a Sr SecOps Engineer to design, implement and maintain suitable infrastructure and application security solutions on AWS public cloud environments using DevSecOps mindset. You will bring world class cloud-native security expertise to implement solutions for security configuration hardening, vulnerability management, detection, protection and monitoring of security threats and intrusions, in an automated fashion. </p><h3>What You'll Do </h3><ul><div><li><p>Driving the design and implementation of defense-in-depth infrastructure and application security solutions for our customer facing SaaS platform in AWS public cloud environments</p></li><li><p>Driving architecture, implementation, configuration and automation of native and third party cloud security solutions for hardening, detection, prevention, logging and response solutions for security vulnerabilities and threats</p></li><li><p>Provide thought leadership with a security bent of mind to the organization</p></li><li><p>Working closely with Product, Engineering and IT in a DevSecOps model on technologies like FWs, ACLs, WAFs, IAM roles and perm