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About the Role

Agoda is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time position focuses on securing cloud and platform environments, working closely with engineering teams to build, review, and operate security controls. The role involves utilizing Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and custom security services developed in Go and TypeScript.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage secure cloud deployments across AWS and GCP environments using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage internal and third-party security products within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Work with GitOps workflows utilizing tools such as Argo CD, Flux, and Helm charts.
• Design and build security tooling and services using Go and TypeScript.
• Proactively identify, analyze, and remediate cloud misconfigurations.
• Provide guidance to Engineering teams on secure architecture best practices.
• Build and optimize cloud-native detection rules and alerting pipelines to monitor for suspicious activities within cloud and container workloads.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, or platform engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience securing production workloads in AWS and GCP.
• Strong experience designing and securing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes security, including troubleshooting Helm deployments and GitOps-based workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Go and TypeScript, with Python experience for automation.
• Experience embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines.

Certifications

• Required: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
• Preferred: AWS Certified Security Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Additional Preferred Skills

• Experience with Policy-as-Code frameworks such as Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Experience securing service mesh environments (Istio).
• Background in software engineering or platform engineering prior to moving into security.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. Agoda is part of Booking Holdings and operates with a diverse, global team.