Medior Security Engineer
About us
Kaiko is actively developing a next-generation autonomous clinical AI assistant that aids clinicians in reasoning across patient data, guidelines, and diagnostics. The company works closely with leading hospitals and research centers, including the Netherlands Cancer Institute, to develop specialized diagnostic agents and ensure safe operation in clinical settings.
Job description
As a medior security engineer, you will design and operate pragmatic controls across identity, application, cloud, data, and network security, ensuring that security enables rapid feature deployment while protecting sensitive patient data. You will have high ownership and the opportunity to build new capabilities from the ground up, working with modern infrastructure in a regulated context.
- Contribute in core domains: IAM & RBAC/ABAC, data governance, application, cloud, and network security
- Harden Kubernetes and cloud; codify security controls and automate guardrails in CI/CD
- Proactively discover risks (threat hunting, automated checks) and run incident response with clear SLAs
- Grow a culture of security via enablement: guidance, trainings, and security-champions support
Relevant work experience
- 4–6 Years of Practical Security Engineering Experience in Production (Platform/AppSec/Cloud)
- Strong with Kubernetes and at least one cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure); solid IAM/RBAC and data governance
- Proficient in Python/Go/Rust for tooling; experienced with IaC (OpenTofu or Terraform) and Git workflows
- Knowledge of cloud networking and securing workloads end-to-end
Benefits
Great offsites and team events to strengthen the team and celebrate successes together
An attractive and competitive salary, a good pension plan and 25 vacation days per year
A EUR 1000 learning and development budget to help you grow
Autonomy to do your work the way that works best for you, whether you have a kid or prefer early mornings
An annual commuting subsidy
Skills required for the job