About the job
About Keyrock
Since our inception in 2017, Keyrock has emerged as a transformative force in the digital asset landscape, celebrated for our innovative partnerships and forward-thinking solutions.
Today, we proudly count over 180 talented individuals from 42 different nationalities among our ranks. With a diverse range of experiences, from DeFi experts to PhD holders, our predominantly remote team operates from hubs in London, Brussels, Singapore, and Paris, fostering a collaborative environment through regular online and offline gatherings.
We are active on more than 80 exchanges, partnering with a broad spectrum of asset issuers. As a recognized market maker, our unique expertise has catalyzed rapid expansion into various services, including market making, options trading, high-frequency trading, OTC, and DeFi trading desks.
At Keyrock, we are more than just a service provider; we are innovators. We are pioneers in utilizing the Rust Development language for our algorithmic trading and advocate for its adoption across the industry. Through our Accelerator Program, we empower Web3 startups, enhance ecosystems by injecting liquidity into promising DeFi, RWA, and NFT protocols, and drive industry advancement through our research and governance initiatives.
Join us at Keyrock, where we are not merely imagining the future of digital assets, we are actively constructing it.
The Role
As the Head of Security Engineering, you will lead the technical strategy and implementation of Keyrock’s security engineering initiatives, establishing secure-by-design cloud foundations, developer-friendly processes, and robust cryptographic/key-management controls essential for a high-availability trading environment.
This position demands a hands-on leader with extensive knowledge of AWS and AWS Key Management Service (KMS), encompassing key policies, grants, cross-account patterns, and key rotation practices.
Your Responsibilities
Security Engineering Leadership
Lead and expand a high-performing security engineering team focused on cloud, platform, and application security, while establishing a clear roadmap, standards, and measurable outcomes.
Create engineering patterns that harmonize speed and control (secure defaults, automation-first, self-service guardrails).
AWS Cloud Security Architecture
Take ownership of the cloud security architecture for AWS, developing landing zone patterns, multi-account strategies, network segmentation, identity and access design, logging/telemetry baselines, and infrastructure hardening.
Implement preventive measures and controls...
