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We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco. Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.\n\nWhy VerdaCash and equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, and more).\n\nProfitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.\n\n40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.\n\nA real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.\n\nAbout the roleAs Kubernetes and Container Platform Security Specialist you own the security of Verda's Kubernetes offering: multi-node and single-node clusters, the container registry, and the credentials that reach it. The workloads running on it are not ours, the tenants do not trust each other, and the boundary between them is what customers are paying for. That is a different problem from securing your own cluster, and it is the centre of this role.\nThis is a securing role rather than a platform engineering one. You would not run the clusters or carry the platform on-call rota. The platform team operates and implements, and you define the security standard and verify what ships against it.\n\nYour responsibilitiesIn this role, you would be the technical authority on Kubernetes and container platform security at Verda.\nOwn the security design of Verda's Kubernetes offering, container registry, and registry credentials, including image provenance, signing, and admission verification requirements\n\nOwn the tenant isolation model on shared Kubernetes infrastructure: namespace, node and cluster boundaries, tenant reachability, and kubelet and API server exposure\n\nOwn the GPU-specific surface that most Kubernetes security work never touches: device plugins, privileged operator workloads, and partitioning boundaries\n\nDefine the Kubernetes hardening baseline across control plane, node OS, container runtime, etcd and secrets handling, and the policy and admission enforcement model behind it, expressed as policy-as-code so conformance is continuously observable\n\nDesign the Kubernetes network security model alongside Network Security: CNI-level policy, L3/L4/L7 controls, DNS and egress policy\n\nSpecify runtime detection requirements for the Security Operations Centre to operate and triage, scope assessments and attack simulation for red teams to execute, and act on what both surface\n\nJudge Kubernetes and container ecosystem advisories against Verda's configuration and set remediation priority, research new releases and ecosystem technology in a lab ahead of production adoption, and support Verda's compliance position through technical evidence and audit support\n\nYour key competenciesStrong production Kubernetes and Linux experience, at a depth that lets you find problems rather than only configure around them\n\nDirect experience of multi-tenant Kubernetes: shared clusters, untrusted workloads, isolation as a requirement rather than a nice-to-have\n\nDeep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, the container runtime layer, and container and image security\n\nStrong Kubernetes networking, including CNI-level policy design\n\nPractical experience of policy-as-code and admission control, and working knowledge of software supply chain security: signing, provenance, SBOMs, and what admission-time enforcement actually requires\n\nAbility to write a standard that someone else implements, verify conformance without owning the change, and influence an engineering team you do not manage\n\nA research mindset: testing new technology, finding weaknesses, building proofs of concept, and turning findings into requirements that ship\n\nComfortable operating with incomplete information and deciding quickly\n\nNice to haveGPU infrastructure: device plugins, GPU operators, partitioning, and the privileged workloads they require\n\nMulti-tenant container registry operation at scale\n\neBPF-based observability or runtime security\n\nCluster lifecycle and fleet management tooling\n\nCVE analysis, advisory triage, or upstream contribution in the Kubernetes or CNCF ecosystem\n\nConfidential computing, or attested execution environments\n\nCloud provider, hosting, or another environment where the infrastructure is the product, ideally one certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2 or C5 where you produced the technical evidence\n\nPracticalitiesLocation: Helsinki, Finland or London, United Kingdom\n\nHybrid mode: working 3 days a week from our Helsinki or London office\n\nEmployment type: full-time and permanent\n\nWhat's nextWe're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.\nPlease submit your application through our Careers page. 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