Senior Security Engineer, EU Sovereign Cloud bei Genesys

Genesys empowers organizations of all sizes to improve loyalty and business outcomes by creating the best experiences for their customers and employees. Through Genesys Cloud, the AI-powered Experience Orchestration platform, organizations can accelerate growth by delivering empathetic, personalized experiences at scale to drive customer loyalty, workforce engagement, efficiency and operational improvements.

We employ more than 6,000 people across the globe who embrace empathy and cultivate collaboration to succeed. And, while we offer great benefits and perks like larger tech companies, our employees have the independence to make a larger impact on the company and take ownership of their work. Join the team and create the future of customer experience together.

As a Senior Security Engineer for the EU Sovereign Cloud on the Genesys Cloud Security Operations team, you will act as a technical leader, responsible for driving security initiatives and mentoring junior team members. Based in Frankfurt, your expertise will be crucial in implementing and tuning scalable security solutions and automating key security processes to improve efficiency. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and execute advanced change management and security review processes, ensuring all new projects and features adhere to our security standards. 

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying, developing, and implementing new technical automations for security tasks. 

• Lead the configuration and management of our EDR solutions, providing strategic guidance to optimize threat detection and response capabilities. 

• Oversee and lead quarterly vulnerability and network segmentation scanning initiatives, and implement a process for consistent cloud security group reviews. 

• Take the lead on designing and deploying new monitoring and alerting capabilities, ensuring comprehensive visibility across the environment. 

• Serve as a primary technical liaison with the commercial team, leading collaborative projects to enhance security controls and a secure architecture. 

• Mentor and guide junior engineers, helping to build their technical skills and security knowledge. 

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support critical security operations. 

Qualifications: 

• Must be a citizen of, and reside in, the European Union. 

• Extensive experience in a mid- to high-level security role in cloud technologies, preferably AWS. 

• Proven track record of driving and implementing security initiatives with minimal oversight. 

• Expertise in security automation, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code. 

• Deep knowledge of vulnerability management, EDR, and cloud security posture management. 

• Experience with advanced monitoring and incident response platforms. 

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor other security professionals and communicate complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences. 

• Eagerness to learn in a fast-paced environment. 

Desirable (but not required): 

• Experience using AI technologies (e.g., Bedrock, ChatGPT, Cursor) for security-related tasks is a plus. 

• Certifications: AWS, Security+, SANS GCIH, or equivalent. 

• Knowledge in: 

• • SAST, SCA, and CSPM tools. 

• • EDR tools. 

• • SIEM and SOAR technologies. 

• • Logging solutions (e.g., Splunk, SumoLogic). 

• • Vulnerability scanning solutions (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, OpenVAS). 

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About Genesys:

Genesys® empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide to create the best customer and employee experiences. With agentic AI at its core, Genesys Cloud™ is the AI-Powered Experience Orchestration platform that connects people, systems, data and AI across the enterprise. As a result, organizations can drive customer loyalty, growth and retention while increasing operational efficiency and teamwork across human and AI workforces. To learn more, visit www.genesys.com.

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