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About the Role
Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform, empowering partners to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services. Founded in 2016, Solaris pioneered the Banking-as-a-Service market and is headquartered in Berlin with 300 employees across Europe.
Responsibilities
- Audit the current AWS environment, identify security technical debt, and plan the refactoring of legacy resources into secure Terraform code.
- Design, deploy, tune, and maintain AWS WAF policies and rulesets to protect corporate applications and APIs against application-layer attacks.
- Establish and enforce cloud security guardrails, multi-account structures, and Service Control Policies (SCPs).
- Define and audit AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategies, guiding engineering teams toward the principle of least privilege.
- Manage and optimize cloud-native security monitoring and detection tools.
- Assist with incident response for AWS-specific security alerts, performing cloud forensic analysis and coordinating containment strategies.
- Ensure the AWS cloud ecosystem remains compliant with relevant financial regulations, internal policies, and security frameworks.
- Lead security automatizations on the AWS environment.
- Understand AWS native AI capabilities (e.g., Bedrock or Quick).
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of dedicated professional experience in Cloud Security Engineering, with a proven track record of securing complex AWS environments.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, implementing, and fine-tuning AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and CloudFront.
- Strong proficiency in Terraform and auditing IaC templates for security drifts.
- Mastery of AWS native security tools (IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty) and multi-account security architecture.
- Experience working alongside separate, established Cloud Architecture or DevOps teams.
- Understands agile workflows and lean principles.
- Technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and cloud governance focus.
- Business proficient written and spoken English.
- Exceptional diplomatic and communication skills to align security requirements with team objectives.
- Structured and analytical approach to untangling legacy cloud setups and defining clear, secure milestones.
- Empathic team player who avoids the "silo" mentality and focuses on enabling other teams to build securely.
- Proactive peer that helps the growth of the team.
- Curious, constant learner willing to share learning with others.
Skills
- AWS WAF & Edge Security
- Advanced Terraform & IaC
- AWS Security Governance
- Collaboration with Engineering
- Agile workflows
- Lean principles
- Technical leadership
- Cross-team collaboration
- Cloud governance
- English proficiency
- Diplomatic communication
- Analytical thinking
- Team player
- Proactive
- Continuous learning
- AWS native AI capabilities (Bedrock or Quick)
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of professional experience
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- €85.000—€110.000 EUR
Benefits
- Home office budget
- Learning & development budget of €1000 per year
- Transparent growth framework
- Competitive salary
- Variable remuneration program
- Monthly meal allowance
- Deutschland ticket subsidy
- 28 vacation days (increasing with tenure)
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year
About the Company
- Solaris is Europe's leading embedded finance platform.
- Solaris’ full German banking license and proprietary modular B2B tech stack empowers its partners to offer compliant, customer-centric banking services.
- Founded in 2016, Solaris pioneered the Banking-as-a-Service market with an unparalleled combination of tech and banking.
- Solaris is headquartered in Berlin and employs 300 people in Europe.
Equal Opportunity
- At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported.
- We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.