About the Company
Our client in the maritime logistics space is on a mission to make global supply chains more secure and efficient. Based in Antwerp, they are recognized pioneers in their domain, digitizing and connecting complex logistics ecosystems using decentralized technologies like blockchain. With over 6,000 clients already using their platform, they’re scaling fast and doubling down on trust, security, and cloud-first innovation.
About the Role
As the company migrates from a legacy Linux infrastructure to a fully cloud-native environment in AWS, they’re looking for a SecOps Engineer to help design, implement, and maintain a modern security and monitoring framework across their platform.
This is a hands-on role, well suited to someone who thrives in greenfield environments and wants to take ownership of cloud security in a growing scale-up. You’ll work closely with the development team, the CEO, and product leadership to translate technical requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure, while keeping one eye on compliance and the other on proactive threat prevention.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement security and monitoring architecture for a cloud-native platform (AWS)
- Drive the migration of infrastructure from traditional Linux-based systems to containerized solutions using AWS ECS (Fargate)
- Set up and maintain security tooling, including intrusion detection, anomaly detection, and vulnerability scanning
- Improve log management and analysis
- Contribute to security policy development, including implementation of ISO27001-compliant practices
- Collaborate with Dev and Infra teams to embed security across the software lifecycle (DevSecOps)
- Support the rollout of code quality tooling in CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain and improve secret management and secure deployment flows
Current stack & security context
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS (primary environment)
- AWS ECS (Fargate) for container orchestration
- AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD
- AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) for image storage
- AWS Secrets Manager for managing secrets
- PostgreSQL on AWS Aurora for database
- NGINX as reverse proxy
- AWS CloudWatch for logging and monitoring
Source control & tooling
- Bitbucket for version control
- Jira and Confluence for project and documentation management
Security roadmap / upcoming priorities
- Rollout of intrusion detection and anomaly detection tooling
- Structured log management and analysis for audit and response
- Introduction of vulnerability scanning across the CI/CD pipeline
- Integration of code quality tools
Nice to have
- Relevant AWS and security certifications (e.g. AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, etc.)
- Experience with PostgreSQL in a cloud-hosted setup
- Background in penetration testing
- Previous exposure to decentralized technologies or blockchain is a bonus
Why Join
- Join a scale-up with strong product-market fit with bold vision
- Take ownership of a greenfield cloud security transformation
- Work on real-world challenges in a high-impact environment
- Contribute to a platform already trusted by thousands of users and help secure its future