Senior Security Engineer

About this role

📍 Location: Athens, Greece 🏢 Weekly office requirement: Hybrid, 1 day/week, or fully remote 💼 Employment type: Permanent 🪜 Seniority level: Mid-Senior 🌐 Language: All stages of the recruitment process will be conducted in English At GWI we’re always looking for extraordinary people who thrive on making an extraordinary impact. Right now we’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to play a key role in our Security team in Athens .

If that’s you, and making a difference gets you out of bed in the morning, keep reading. It could be the start of something, well, extraordinary. As our Senior Security Engineer you’ll help keep our platform and our customers’ data safe by watching our security tooling closely and acting on what it tells us, as we work towards ISO certification. You’ll join a small security team where you can take initiative and potentially own projects from start to finish.

Sounds great, what will I be doing? 🤔 👉 Monitor and triage alerts and logs across our security tools, and take operational action on findings rather than waiting for direction. 👉 Track vulnerabilities end to end, keeping clear records of actions, owners and deadlines across teams. 👉 Help produce the operational evidence for our ISO certification by documenting what we monitor and what we do about it. 👉 Drive decisions on alerts, including web application firewall alerts, working with IT, DevOps, Engineering and Legal.

👉 Contribute to team initiatives, including automating repetitive security work. What do I need to bring with me? 🧳 You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the core skills this role requires. You don’t have to tick all the boxes right away; the important thing is that you’re willing to learn. Here’s what the team will be looking for in you: 👉 Computer Science background: A degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

👉 Security experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in security. 👉 Code literacy: You can read code and write scripts to investigate findings and automate repetitive work (Python or Golang preferred). 👉 Initiative and communication: You pick up findings without being asked, reply promptly, and join cross-team calls with confidence. Nice to have: 👉 Exposure to ISO 27001 or security audits 👉 Experience with a cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure or similar) 👉 Exposure to IT or DevOps, and the security best practices that go with them Equally important is attitude.