Senior Platform Security Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Platform Security Engineer About Skyhigh Security: Skyhigh Security is a dynamic, fast-paced, cloud company that is a leader in the security industry.  Our mission is to protect the world’s data, and because of this, we live and breathe security. We value learning at our core, underpinned by openness and transparency.  Since 2011, organizations have trusted us to provide them with a complete, market-leading security platform built on a modern cloud stack. Our industry-leading suite of products radically simplifies data security through easy-to-use, cloud-based, Zero Trust solutions that are managed in a single dashboard, powered by hundreds of employees across the world. With offices in Santa Clara, Aylesbury, Paderborn, Bengaluru, Sydney, Tokyo and more, our employees are the heart and soul of our company.  Skyhigh Security Is more than a company; here, when you invest your career with us, we commit to investing in you. We embrace a hybrid work model, creating the flexibility and freedom you need from your work environment to reach your potential. From our employee recognition program, to our ‘Blast Talks' learning series, and team celebrations (we love to have fun!), we strive to be an interactive and engaging place where you can be your authentic self.  We are on these too! Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter@SkyhighSecurity. Role Overview: Skyhigh Security is hiring a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Environments and Core Tooling. In this high-impact, technical role, you will be a vital player in maintaining, automating, and securing our developer labs and test environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and highly secure. You will take proactive, senior-level responsibility for the day-to-day security architecture and automation of our non-production environments. Your impact will be measured by your ability to keep our complex developer labs running smoothly, collaborate effectively with local team security champions, and build the automated auditing systems that ensure long-term compliance with our security policies. You must have solid, hands-on technical expertise in on-premises virtualization, configuration automation, and systems-level security to work effectively within the Engineering Excellence team. You’ll build strong collaborative relationships with distributed Engineering teams, Security Champions, and Operations to ensure our non-production environments remain robust and secure without slowing down developer velocity. **Senior Platform Security Engineer – Engineering Excellence** Skyhigh Security is hiring a Senior Platform Security Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence organization, reporting to the Senior Manager of Engineering Environments and Core Tooling. In this high-impact, technical role, you will be a vital player in maintaining, automating, and securing our developer labs and test environments, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and highly secure. You will take proactive, senior-level responsibility for the day-to-day security architecture and automation of our non-production environments. Your impact will be measured by your ability to keep our complex developer labs running smoothly, collaborate effectively with local team security champions, and build the automated auditing systems that ensure long-term compliance with our security policies. You must have solid, hands-on technical expertise in on-premises virtualization, configuration automation, and systems-level security to work effectively within the Engineering Excellence team. You’ll build strong collaborative relationships with distributed Engineering teams, Security Champions, and Operations to ensure our non-production environments remain robust and secure without slowing down developer velocity. **Responsibilities** • Lab & Environment Architecture: Drive the technical maintenance, optimization, and scaling of our developer labs and test environments to ensure high availability and performance. • Establish Technical Auditing: Design and execute automated, systematic audits across all on-premise and mixed-OS engineering environments to verify that local teams adhere to established security standards. • Collaborate with Security Champions: Partner directly with local security champions across different teams to support them in implementing and maintaining their local security plans. • Build Shared Security Capabilities: Design and deploy robust security capabilities specifically for shared resources, including common labs and shared environments. • Maintain Platform Security Standards: Keep environment security policies up to date, ensuring they reflect current engineering standards and evolving security landscapes. • Operational Security Alignment: Ensure that shared environment configurations, access controls, and network boundaries are continuously aligned with corporate security guidelines. **Requirements** • 5 to 8 years of relevant industry experience. • Environment & Lab Administration: Extensive, hands-on experience maintaining complex test environments, developer labs, staging infrastructures, or container registries in a modern software engineering organization. • Systems Security Mindset: A strong understanding of core security principles (e.g, Identity & Access Management, network segmentation, least privilege) applied to on-premises systems and networks. • Automated Auditing & Drift Detection: Ability to design systems that systematically track, document, and validate security compliance across multiple teams. • Collaborative Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work constructively with distributed teams and security cha