Senior Security Engineer

**Nice to Meet You We are Ascenda.**

Ascenda provides the rewards infrastructure for leading financial services brands across the world.

Our clients include the world’s largest banks, top tier card issuers and fintechs who utilize our rewards infrastructure to power their earn & burn rewards programs. These include American Express, CapitalOne, HSBC, Brex, Virgin Money, SMBC, ICBC, Bradesco, ANZ, HDFC and Top 10 financial services brands in many other countries.

With a best-in-class technology suite and the world’s broadest rewards content marketplace, we are the engine behind winning premium rewards propositions for financial services all around the globe.

Our clients are spread across continents, and we serve over 1 billion customers globally. No matter where you are in the world, you’ll recognize our footprint

We believe that nothing should stand in the way of companies who strive to drive growth via compelling and effortless rewards propositions that their customers love.

Welcome to the future of customer growth. Join us as we shape the future of rewards in financial services

**Join us as a Senior Security Engineer**

We are looking for a passionate Security Engineer who is keen to learn, grow and bring his/her experience in a fast-paced environment. We promote and do security through (we think) fun and cool stuff.

We have achieved compliance with the most stringent security standards (PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001). Our partners are financial institutions and airlines, and they expect a very high level of availability, reliability and security.

**Key responsibilities**

We’re looking for a senior profile with a genuine passion for technical security with several years of professional experience and has dabbled in multiple disciplines of security.

As a senior member of the Security team, you would be expected to:

- Research, analyse, and evaluate the risks of introducing new technologies and tools to our current architecture from a security perspective.
- Investigate the occasional security alerts and take the necessary actions.
- Constantly be up to date with security trends, news and understanding of their relevance to our security posture.
- Work together with the security team on creating security awareness training materials, targeted at both technical developers as well as non-technical people.
- Be overall an independent and committed person with a strong tenacity to look into issues deeply
- Demonstrate a robust commitment to self-improvement and actively contributes to the team's collective growth by continuously enhancing individual skills and fostering a collaborative environment.

We expect you to have:

- Knowledge in scripting (Bash, Python, Javascript, etc).
- Knowledge in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Independence and good communication skills, able to interact and work effectively with both technical and non-technical people.
- Familiarity with the concepts of Industrial Security Certifications such as PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO27001.
- Technical Security Certifications such as CREST, OSCP, OSWE (or any of the other Offensive Security Certifications).

It will be a bonus if you have:

- Knowledge and experience in conducting other red team activities such as phishing exercises (e.g. CRTO certified)
- Deep knowledge of Cloud and Container vulnerabilities and exploiting them.
- Bug Bounty findings and CVEs to your name
- Experience with playing CTFs (Share your writeups)

What matters at ASCENDA:
We are passionate, We keep things simple, We focus on results, We work together & We innovate

We have a REWARDING WORKPLACE that provides a:

- High growth environment & exponential career development
- Mobile & flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Travel perks & Employee rewards