Senior Platform Security Engineer

Are you skilled in securing platforms against cyber threats and advancing our security initiatives to the next level? If yes, this role is perfect for you!

Tribal is a leading EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.

We’re looking to recruit a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Cyber Security and Infrastructure team. The team manage our global services, including all our products across the business. They are responsible for Infrastructure, wide area network and security across both internal and external cloud based systems, monitoring networks, enforcing security policies, conducting vulnerability assessments, and implementing security measures.

This is a full time permanent role, offering a fully remote working arrangement with travel when required. This role falls within the scope of Tribal's on Call and Out of Hours Working policy.

Regular out of hours working may therefore be required to fulfil the requirements of the role, and this will be compensated in line with the policy.

The Role

You will tackle all security issues across Tribal platforms. This role involves working closely with various teams and third parties to ensure that a security-first mindset is implemented into every stage of the product and platform lifecycle. Responsibilities will include:

• Identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities in the development process through threat modelling.
• Conducting regular reviews to detect and fix security issues in the code.
• Analysing code for security flaws both before and during runtime.
• Provide security training, ensuring developers are knowledgeable about secure coding practices.
• Identifying and assessing security risks associated with our platform and its components.
• design and implement secure architecture solutions that align with best practices and Tribal’s security policies.
• Working with cross-functional teams to investigate incidents, determine root causes, implementing corrective actions to prevent future occurrences.

The skills you’ll need:

• SecOps experience (Azure and AWS) along with experience in code development security.
• ITIL Foundation/Intermediate Certification.
• AZ-500 and AWS Certified Security Specialist.
• Good understanding of SaaS delivery methods.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity standards and frameworks.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience in Tools such as PowerBI, Grafana, Application Insights, Statuspage.io, SIEM, DAST, SAST, SCA, CSPM.
• Experience of Securing public cloud technologies.

What can Tribal offer you?

We offer a range of exceptional benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including a comprehensive Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme, along with a generous parental leave package and the ability to buy or sell holiday each year. We also offer the option of working overseas for up to 8 weeks per year. You'll also have access to E-Learning Opportunities to enhance your skills, Volunteer Days to give back to your community and access to Achievers, our reward and recognition platform, to ensure you can thrive both personally and professionally in a supportive and rewarding environment.

We’re committed to creating an environment that enables employees to balance their responsibilities inside and outside of work and encourage and support a range of flexible working patterns for all colleagues. If you need flexibility, apply and discuss your needs with us.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector.

Criminal Records and Security Checks

If you are successful in your application, a security/criminal record check will be required before we can employ you, If, following the check the nature of a conviction is deemed unacceptable, this may lead to an offer of employment being withdrawn.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.