Kubernetes and Container Platform Security Specialist (Kubernetes)

Location: Helsinki, Finland or London, United Kingdom. Hybrid work requires three days per week from the Helsinki or London office.

Company

hirify.global is building a full-stack AI cloud spanning data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform for AI teams.

What you will do

• Own the security design of the Kubernetes offering, container registry, registry credentials, image provenance, signing, and admission verification.
• Define tenant isolation across shared Kubernetes infrastructure, including namespace, node, cluster, kubelet, and API server boundaries.
• Set security requirements for GPU infrastructure, device plugins, privileged workloads, and partitioning boundaries.
• Define Kubernetes hardening, policy-as-code, admission enforcement, container runtime, etcd, secrets, and network security standards.
• Specify runtime detection and attack simulation requirements, assess advisories, research new ecosystem technologies, and prioritize remediation.
• Support compliance through technical evidence and audit work while influencing platform engineers without directly managing them.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes and Linux.
• Direct experience securing multi-tenant Kubernetes environments with shared clusters and untrusted workloads.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, container runtimes, container security, image security, and Kubernetes networking.
• Practical experience with policy-as-code, admission control, signing, provenance, SBOMs, and software supply chain security.
• Ability to define standards, verify implementation conformance, conduct research, build proofs of concept, and influence engineering teams.
• Full-time permanent employment with hybrid attendance in Helsinki or London is required.

Nice to have

• GPU infrastructure, multi-tenant container registries, eBPF observability or runtime security, and cluster lifecycle tooling.
• CVE analysis, advisory triage, or upstream contributions in the Kubernetes or CNCF ecosystem.
• Experience with confidential computing, attested execution environments, or infrastructure products certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, or C5.

Culture & Benefits

• Cash and equity compensation with healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, and other benefits.
• Work alongside engineers, researchers, and partners across the AI ecosystem.
• International environment with more than 40 nationalities.
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the Careers page; applications by email are not accepted.
• Hiring proceeds without an artificial deadline and moves forward when a suitable candidate is identified.