IAM Security Engineer

About us: Causaly is redefining how humans acquire knowledge and develop insights in biomedicine. Our AI-powered platform enables researchers and decision-makers to discover and interpret evidence from millions of scientific publications, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and other complex data sources in minutes. We are building the world’s most advanced biomedical knowledge platform, powered by a high-precision Knowledge Graph and GenAI capabilities. Our technology is already used by leading biopharmaceutical organizations to accelerate drug discovery, improve safety, and drive better decision-making. Backed by top-tier investors including ICONIQ, Index Ventures, Pentech, and Marathon, we are scaling rapidly and expanding our product suite and market presence.  About the Role We are looking for a Senior or Staff Security Engineer to join our security team and own our vulnerability management program, collaborate with several Engineering and Product teams as a Security advisor and support SecOps. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy — defining strategy, building processes, and acting as a trusted security advisor to our engineering organisation. What You'll Do * Own the vulnerability management program end-to-end: strategy, tooling, prioritisation, and remediation tracking across dependencies, containers, and cloud environments. * Define and maintain a dependency security strategy, including policies for third-party library adoption and update cadence. * Integrate and maintain security tooling in CI/CD pipelines (SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning). * Act as a security consultant to product and engineering squads — supporting design reviews, architecture decisions, and secure coding practices. * Define and maintain security standards and guidelines practical for development teams. * Manage and continuously improve the Security Champions program — growing security awareness and capability across engineering teams. * Support SecOps in incident triage and response, contributing security engineering context where needed. Requirements * Strong knowledge of cloud security — IAM, network security, secure configuration best practices. * Hands-on experience with security tooling in CI/CD pipelines (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning). * Proven experience in a vulnerability management role, through the entire lifecycle. * Passionate and knowledgeable about using LLMs for building robust security practices, including triage, secure code review, threat analysis and tooling * In-depth knowledge of secure coding practices in Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and/or React. * Familiarity with security frameworks and standards (e.g. OWASP, NIST, CIS Benchmarks). * Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate risk for both technical and non-technical audiences. Nice to Have * Experience with Semgrep for static analysis and custom rule authoring. * Experience with Wiz for cloud security posture management. * Experience running or contributing to a Security Champions program. * Experience with threat modelling (e.g. STRIDE). * Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. * Relevant certifications are considered a plus (e.g. CISSP, IaaS specific certifications, etc..). Benefits UK: 💰 Competitive compensation package 🩺 Private medical insurance 🦷 Private dental insurance 📔 Life insurance (4 x salary) 🤓 Personal development budget 🧘 Individual wellbeing budget 🌴 25 days holiday plus bank holidays 🥳 Your birthday off! 🚀 Potential to have real impact and accelerated career growth as a member of an international team that's building a transformative AI product. We are on a mission to accelerate scientific breakthroughs for ALL humankind, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and fairly consider qualified candidates without regard to race, ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, genetics, age, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, domestic / family status, veteran status or any other difference.

THE OPPORTUNITY As a Cloud Security Engineer-Platform & Infrastructure at NavVis, you will play a critical role in strengthening our cloud security posture, with a strong focus on Kubernetes and AWS environments. You will own and optimize our Wiz platform, implement security automation, and ensure compliance with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 standards. This is a hands-on role where you will collaborate closely with engineering teams to embed security into our infrastructure and processes.    HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT * Take ownership of Kubernetes security across our EKS clusters: design and enforce RBAC, admission controllers, network policies, and pod security standards  * Harden container workloads through image scanning, runtime threat detection, and workload identity best practices   * Own and continuously improve our cloud security posture using Wiz, AWS native services and internal monitoring   * Drive security automation and hardening across AWS, EKS and on-prem infrastructure * Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, Helm, GitOps) to prevent misconfigurations early   * Design and maintain guardrails and detection rules for identity, network and workload security  * Design and enforce least-privilege IAM and support SSO and SAML workflows   * Partner closely with engineering teams to secure new services and architectural changes   * Lead vulnerability management and remediation across cloud assets, containers and applications  * Support risk assessments, internal security reviews and compliance initiatives (ISO 27001, SOC 2)  * Investigate and respond to security incidents, driving follow-up improvements   * Contribute to internal security standards, playbooks and documentation    WHAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED IN THE ROLE * Strong hands-on Kubernetes security experience you are comfortable with being the go-to person for Kubernetes security decisions. * Experience hardening containerized workloads, including image scanning, runtime security and workload identity * Strong hands-on experience with AWS security (IAM, KMS, networking, GuardDuty, Security Hub) * Strong Terraform skills and an automation-first mindset * Experience with CSPM and cloud monitoring tools (Wiz is a strong plus) * Familiarity with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 control environments * Experience designing and enforcing least-privilege access models and SSO integrations * Confidence handling security incidents, investigations and documentation * Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills  HOW WE WILL KNOW WE ARE A PERFECT MATCH Your recruiting partner for this role is Sylvie (she/her). You can expect to go through a screening call, and up to 4 rounds of interviews, where we would love to discover your passion and interests, introduce you to who we are and what drives us, and finally understand how we can potentially add value to each other's growth.   HOW WE WILL KEEP YOU SMILING * It's important to take a break from work! We offer 30 days of paid time off per year * Affordable access to a vast network of fitness and wellness facilities through EGYM Wellpass subsidy * Deutschlandticket subsidy to support sustainable travel using public transport * We offer flexible working hours and a hybrid work setup, enabling you to plan your work around your life, and not your life around work! * We offer full visa and relocation support for international candidates * An attractive bike leasing model through JobRad, in line with our commitment towards sustainable mobility * A competitive compensation package that values the skills and experience you bring * Up to 4000 EUR employee referral bonus  * Financial support for local language classes to help you in your journey of integrating into the culture! We derive our strength from our diversity. NavVis’ unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace has laid the foundation for our incredible growth. We thrive on the collective strength of our people who come from diverse backgrounds. We respect and value every experience associated with race, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, religion and disability. We do not discriminate on the basis of any of these, or other identities, and strongly encourage everyone to apply. Together with you, we build NavVis! If you need assistance at any stage of the recruiting process due to a disability, please reach out to your recruiting partner(s) for this position.