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The Infrastructure team is expanding to bring on a Senior Security Engineer with a focus on designing, implementing, and maintaining systems to fulfil the Q-CTRL Security Objectives, as well as identifying practical ways to leverage AI within our security engineering practices.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nReporting to the Engineering Manager for Infrastructure, you’ll play a hands-on role in ensuring we deliver the highest security standards for Q-CTRL products and maintain the trust our customers place in us.\nStrengthening the security of the Q-CTRL platform through contribution to key systems such as Kubernetes clusters, cloud networking, Zero Trust network architectures and firewalls.\nConsistently upholding compliance with security frameworks through the improvement of systems and processes. 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