Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Agoda is a global travel platform that connects people to destinations and experiences. They are seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to secure their cloud and platform environments, focusing on building and operating security controls using Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage secure cloud deployments across AWS and GCP environments using Terraform
• Deploy and manage both internal and third‑party security products within the Kubernetes ecosystem
• Work with GitOps workflows using tools like Argo CD and Flux, and Helm charts
• Design and build security tooling and services using Go and TypeScript
• Proactively identify, analyze, and remediate cloud misconfigurations
• Provide guidance to Engineering teams on secure architecture
• Build and optimize cloud-native detection rules and alerting pipelines to monitor for suspicious activities within the cloud and container workloads

Skills

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, or platform engineering roles
• Hands-on experience securing production workloads in AWS and GCP
• Strong experience designing and securing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes security, including troubleshooting Helm deployments and GitOps-based workflows
• Strong programming skills in Go and TypeScript, with Python used for automation where appropriate
• Experience embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines
• Certifications (Required) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• AWS Certified Security Specialty
• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Experience with Policy-as-Code frameworks such as Open Policy Agent (OPA)
• Experience securing service mesh environments (Istio)
• Background in software engineering or platform engineering before moving into security

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