About the job

Job Description

finera. is a PCI DSS Level 1 payment-orchestration platform. We are seeking an experienced, proactive Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to strengthen the security team and protect our infrastructure across endpoint, email, network and web-facing payment platforms. The role combines senior security operations — incident ownership, detection engineering and L2/L3 escalation — with hands-on engineering and administration of the enterprise security stack (EDR, email security, DLP, SASE/VPN, WAF, DDoS). The successful candidate will also be the day-to-day technical owner of our managed out-of-hours detection & response service and will contribute to security governance, architecture and documentation under our PCI DSS programme. This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who can own incidents end-to-end, raise the maturity and resilience of the function, and operate calmly in a fast-paced, compliance-driven environment.

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications

7+ years’ hands-on experience in cybersecurity / security operations / security engineering, including time in a senior or lead capacity.
Demonstrated experience implementing and evidencing controls under PCI DSS (and/or ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Benchmarks).
Proven incident-response ownership across the full lifecycle, from triage to post-incident review.
Experience working alongside or managing an MDR / managed SOC service, including escalation governance and SLA oversight.
Degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Required Skills & Competencies

Deep, hands-on SIEM/XDR and EDR operation, tuning and detection engineering.
Administration of email security, DLP, SASE and VPN platforms.
WAF, API security and DDoS mitigation (Cloudflare or comparable edge platforms).
Strong grasp of network-security fundamentals — TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S — and common attack techniques.
Excellent documentation (SOPs, runbooks, incident reports) and calm, clear stakeholder communication under pressure.

Nice-to-have / Preferred

Hands-on Check Point Harmony (Endpoint, Email & Collaboration, SASE) and/or Check Point managed-services experience; Cloudflare Enterprise (WAF, DDoS, Bot Management).
Industry certifications (CISSP, GIAC GCIH/GCIA/GMON, Check Point, Cloudflare, Security+) and prior payment-gateway, fintech or PCI DSS Level 1 experience.

Responsibilities