Cloud Network & Edge Security Engineer

Location: Madrid or Barcelona, Spain; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global provides financial infrastructure for global commerce across more than 60 emerging markets and operates with over 1,300 teammates from 40+ nationalities.

What you will do

• Design, operate, and evolve secure, resilient, scalable cloud and hybrid network solutions with strong availability, latency, disaster-recovery, and operational-simplicity requirements.
• Own WAFs, network firewalls, proxies, load balancers, traffic-routing policies, and FortiGate-based VPN and security services protecting APIs, frontends, and internal services.
• Design and operate AWS networking, third-party connectivity, IPsec/SSL VPNs, leased lines, partner interconnections, routing, DNS, and failover paths.
• Build HTTP/HTTPS and network observability with logs, metrics, dashboards, alerting, synthetic checks, and traffic analysis.
• Develop infrastructure as code and automation with Terraform or similar tools, integrating repeatable, tested, auditable changes into CI/CD workflows.
• Lead incident response, disaster-recovery procedures, controlled failovers, postmortems, remediation, compliance support, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• Solid hands-on experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production cloud networking in high-availability and security-critical environments.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, DNS, routing, NAT, load balancing, proxies, VPN/IPsec, and network troubleshooting.
• Practical AWS networking experience with VPC, subnets, route tables, Route 53, load balancers, Transit Gateway, VPC peering, security groups, Network ACLs, and AWS Network Firewall.
• Hands-on experience with WAFs and edge-security controls for web applications and APIs.
• Experience managing firewalls, ideally FortiGate, including VPNs, security policies, virtual IPs, routing, and log analysis.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as ELK, New Relic, Coralogix, or similar, including dashboards and alerts for latency, errors, throughput, availability, and anomalous traffic.
• Linux administration fundamentals, command-line troubleshooting, and experience with HTTP/TCP or reverse proxies such as NGINX, HAProxy, or Squid.
• Strong understanding of cloud-security best practices, network segmentation, least privilege, secure change management, and strong written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or multi-cloud networking and security architectures.
• Exposure to PCI-DSS, SOX, or other regulated-industry security and compliance requirements.
• Experience in payments, fintech, banking, or global e-commerce environments where uptime, resilience, and latency are essential.
• Experience with disaster-recovery strategies, multi-provider WAF failover, or zero-trust network architectures.
• AWS certifications such as Advanced Networking – Specialty, Solutions Architect, Security – Specialty, or DevOps Engineer.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible schedules focused on impact and productivity rather than fixed hours, with a combination of self-managed focus time and in-person collaboration.
• Fintech environment with opportunities to build payment infrastructure for global markets.
• Country-specific benefits and an employee referral bonus program.
• Work from anywhere while traveling for up to three months per year.