Senior Security Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Aarhus, Denmark; four days per week in the office

Company

hirify.global is a fully licensed Nordic digital bank building cloud-native, real-time financial services with AI for millions of users across Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

What you will do

• Engineer and harden security across AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, cloud infrastructure, and employee endpoints.
• Assess and remediate security findings, including critical vulnerabilities and Kubernetes RBAC privilege escalation issues.
• Investigate incidents and phishing campaigns while contributing to detection engineering and security resilience.
• Assess AI security implications and enable safer use of AI and agentic solutions.
• Contribute to compliance gap analyses covering DORA, GDPR, the AI Act, ISO 27001, and similar frameworks.
• Coordinate external penetration tests, communicate findings, and drive remediation with stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering, DevSecOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a similar role, ideally in a technology-driven or regulated environment.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including Terraform for AWS and GitOps for Kubernetes.
• Experience designing secure cloud-native applications using modern security best practices.
• Experience with Claude Code and agentic solutions, with an understanding of their security implications.
• Experience with SAML, OIDC, RBAC, least-privilege access models, and identity management in cloud or corporate environments.
• Ability to explain security concepts to engineers and non-technical stakeholders and influence others effectively.
• Strong experience in some of the listed areas and genuine curiosity to develop in the others is accepted; strong DevSecOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering profiles with an interest in Security Engineering are encouraged to apply.

Culture & Benefits

• Four days in the office as part of a collaborative, hands-on working model.
• Modern computer equipment and a well-equipped workspace.
• Pension, health insurance, and enhanced parental leave.
• Employment may be conditional on a criminal-record check and not being registered in RKI, subject to the regulations of the employment country.
• Adjustments during the recruitment process are available upon request.