DevSecOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer to join our team.

The world is changing. We all want something different.

At Luno, we see you as an individual, and we want to unleash your potential and empower you to become the best possible version of yourself.

Luno welcomes crypto lovers and crypto newbies. You - just like everyone in the world - are on your own unique crypto-learning journey.

We are a mission-driven cryptocurrency company that is building more open and equal access to the future of money. You don’t have to know lots about crypto to be interested in joining us, you just have to feel that upgrading the world to a fairer financial system matters, and that you’d like to be part of this global change. We’re a passionate and committed team taking on a challenge of epic proportions. Like the first moon landing, it requires a special kind of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination. We need the best team on board for our mission.

If that sounds like a culture you’d thrive in, then we are excited to hear from you.

A little about us

• Luno means moon in Esperanto, we chose the name because at night, wherever you are in the world, you look up at the same moon. We believe in the power of working together, as one team, across borders, with clear focus and shared purpose.
• Our popular mobile app and website helps people around the world grow and manage their money using the world's most mature cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC. We’ve processed over $21 billion to date.
• Over 7 million customers across 40 countries have chosen to hold their crypto wallets on Luno because we offer a delightfully simple experience and bank-grade security.
• We're part of the Digital Currency Group, named in 2021 as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies, in the “Disruptors” category alongside Tesla, AirBnB, SpaceX, Peloton. TIME noted that DCG is “mainstreaming cryptocurrency”.
• We’re proud to be one of the world’s most international cryptocurrency teams, with colleagues from 43 different nationalities working across South Africa, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Nigeria, Australia and Singapore. Financial inclusion is part of our mission, but on a deeper level, inclusion is a way of life, and a way of work for us. It is part of who we are as a company, and a group of human individuals.

How we work

Our engineering team (currently ~100 engineers) is split into organisations which we call Fleets. Each Fleet focuses on a core customer journey (onboarding, security, payments, support, new business, growth and marketing etc.). Each of these fleets contains multiple smaller teams called Pods, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of the product.

Pods will include a product owner, product designer, back-end engineers, Android, iOS and Web developers, who each bring a unique perspective to the problem you are all contributing towards.

We're agile, use scrum, continuous integration and continuous delivery, deploying to production every single day.

We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience.

Your mission will involve:

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will have technical proficiencies and familiarity in a DevOps culture. To be successful, you will have a keen interest in cybersecurity and up-to-date knowledge of threats and their trends as well as an in-depth understanding of cloud services, with a history of building vulnerability-resilient cloud based pipelines.

Your overall responsibility will be to evaluate and ensure the security of Luno’s Software Development Life Cycle and CI/CD pipelines, by continuously assessing, evaluating and remediating vulnerabilities in each of the stages to avoid external exploitation or unscheduled downtime. To close the loop you will also possess knowledge of the implementation of risk assessment techniques and the latest security best practices to ensure that security is already considered in the initial phases of project planning.

From a work perspective, you find yourself gravitating towards a more agile environment where methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban excite you. You have a pragmatic approach to troubleshooting and solution finding and continually strive to recommend and promote improvements to processes that cause operational inefficiencies and friction whilst keeping a clear focus on delivery and timelines.

The ideal candidate for this role will:

• “Move security left” in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by engaging and collaborating with engineers whilst evaluating security in the software development space, recognizing and remediating any security threats well before deployment.
• Propose and implement additional SAST and Source Code Analysis (SCA) tools for security purposes in DevOps and collaborating with engineers on the findings to ensure they are addressed and remediated.
• Be well-versed in various coding languages (such as Go, Javascript, Python, Kotlin, Swift) so as to collaborate competently with other teams within the organization.
• Evaluate and approve Terraform infrastructure changes to our AWS and GCP accounts
• Evaluate Identity and Access Management requirements as to ensure the implementation of best practices principles such as least privilege and need to know.
• Be familiar with technologies in use at Luno such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and how to implement developer tooling such as Jenkins, git and dependency management.
• Possess proficient communication skills to teach the team various concepts like scalability, automation, and security. Having excellent communication skills helps to deliver the message in an efficient manner.
• Assist in performing risk assessment as part of project planning phases.
• Assist in cyber security audits and annual assessments.
• Spend your free time keeping up to date with the details of cybersecurity threats and the latest software in the DevOps and security space.
• The right to work in the UK if you are not a British citizen.

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that excellent software engineers have diverse backgrounds.

Remote Life at Luno

If you’re looking to work on something truly global and disruptive with a forward-thinking and ambitious team that highly values diversity, teamwork, and the continuous quest for excellence, then this is an opportunity for you.

Like the majority of the companies, Luno is currently working remotely to keep our employees safe, which means you will not be physically, but virtually onboarded for now!

• You'll be able to continuously upskill yourself with access to free online learning via MyAcademy, an international teaching marketplace with over 100000 courses from Harvard and other leading providers + share knowledge with your peers.
• Live long and prosper. We’ve got you covered with excellent private medical insurance.
• Generous maternity / paternity and even (yes, you are reading it correctly) paw-ternity for your furry friend..
• Annual Inspiration Day.. like that pottery course you’ve always been meaning to do!
• Work with a diverse team of hardworking, ambitious and friendly people on something that will truly revolutionise the financial world.
• We are a social bunch of people, we have virtual quarterly activities and drinks Fridays for whoever wants to join!
• We have virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts Monthly to break up your day and work that other part of your brain.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. You'll need to hold the legal right to work in South Africa already as we cannot provide visa sponsorship.

Be part of the change! 🚀