Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Job Field
- IT, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
Job Summary
In this role, you will manage IT security operations, including running SIEM, automating security responses, conducting security assessments, and leading incident management efforts.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Support us in designing the insurance experience of the future.
- As an IT Security Engineer you own IT Security Operations at getolo end to end: running our detection and response capability day to day, keeping endpoints and infrastructure hardened, and driving incidents, vulnerabilities and findings to closure.
- Security operations is the core of this role.
- Beyond it, you bring an operator's perspective into how we design systems and into our governance work, to ensure control effectiveness.
- Security Operations - your primary function
- Run and continuously improve our SIEM: log source onboarding, detection rules, tuning, alert quality.
- Automate orchestration and response with SOAR.
- Operate endpoint protection across our fleet.
- Triage and manage alerts, driving them to closure or escalation.
- Lead incident management from detection through containment, recovery and post-incident review.
- Detect and remediate configuration drift against hardening baselines; run technical audits.
- Oversee vulnerability management: scanning, prioritisation, and remediation tracking with IT and engineering.
- Plan and coordinate penetration tests (internal and with external providers) and drive remediation.
- Security Architecture - supporting
- Contribute to security best practices and standards for infrastructure, endpoints, identity and SaaS.
- Bring security design input into new systems and projects early.
- Act as a security advisor to IT, engineering and the wider business.
- Security GRC - supporting
- Feed operational reality into security policies, the risk register and control design.
- Support internal and external audits with evidence collection and remediation of findings.
- Contribute to security awareness trainings.
- Support third-party and vendor security assessments.
- Deliver operational input for management reporting on security posture, KPIs and incidents.
Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Knowledge of orchestration and response with SOAR.
- Vulnerability management from scanning through remediation, including pentest coordination.
- Working knowledge of ISO 27001 or comparable frameworks (Grundschutz, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, DORA) and how controls map to daily operations.
- Scripting for automation (Python, PowerShell, Unix shell).
- Clear communicator who can explain risk to non-security stakeholders and write for management.
- Fluent English.
Experience
- 4+ years in security operations, SOC, blue team or a comparable hands-on security role.
- Hands-on SIEM experience: onboarding sources, writing and tuning detections, running investigations.
- Solid experience with EDR and MDM-managed endpoint fleets (macOS and Windows).
- Practical incident response experience and the composure to lead an incident.
- Experience with cloud first tech stacks running on SaaS and PaaS.
What we offer
- Attractive fixed salary.
- Start with 28 vacation days, with an increase every two years (capped at 30 days).
- Holidays on December 24th and 31st.
- Choose between a free Swapfiets bike, or a Berlin/Brandenburg ticket ("VBB - Jobticket") or BVG "Deutschlandticket" subsidized by us.
- Work hybrid - from your home office or in our office in Berlin-Mitte.
- Work abroad in the EU for up to 60 days.
- Benefit from free coaching sessions with nilo.health, our mental health tool.
- Test our products yourself! Choose between dentolo, petolo or vitolo.
- Learning Budget starting from 750 € per year.
- Regular (360 degree) feedback.
- We communicate, collaborate, and celebrate in English to ensure everyone is included.
- Our diverse team spans from 33 different countries.
Topics You Will Work On
Job Locations
About Your Employer
getolo GmbH
getolo GmbH, an InsurTech company based in Berlin, offers digital supplementary insurance for dental, pet, and health needs. With over 200 employees, the company serves more than 265,000 customers in Germany and is part of the Zurich Group Germany. It is led by CEO Daniel Gadea and CGO Laura Wulff.
Description
- Company Type
- Startup
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
IT Security Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
