About the job
At bunq, we are committed to transforming banking into a seamless experience for our users. Our goal is to ensure that our services are not only user-centric but also consistently reliable and fortified with robust security measures.
We are in search of a IT Risk Engineer who will take charge of safeguarding our IT systems and enhancing their resilience. In this role, you will proactively identify potential risks, collaborate with engineering teams on testing and monitoring, and ensure that all controls function as intended.
Your Responsibilities
As an IT Risk Engineer, you will exemplify bunq’s commitment to excellence by ensuring our IT controls are efficient, straightforward, and built for the future. Your tasks will include:
Conducting thorough IT risk assessments across various systems, products, and change initiatives, while defining treatment plans and seeing remediation efforts through to completion.
Proactively managing risks in cloud environments (especially AWS), focusing on IAM, data protection, and configuration management.
Evaluating the design of our web and mobile applications to guarantee resilience by design.
Enhancing operational resilience by directing business continuity, disaster recovery, and backup strategies, with regular validation through testing.
Identifying dependencies across systems and processes to reveal vulnerabilities and eliminate single points of failure.
Integrating risk controls into engineering workflows and automating checks whenever possible.
Providing insights from incidents and testing to strengthen controls and engineering practices.

