Security Lead

🕒 July 7

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Apheris

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Apheris is a company that specializes in enabling secure and compliant data collaboration across distributed data environments, particularly for enterprises. The company's solutions empower organizations to engage in federated machine learning and analytics, facilitating the building of models without needing to move sensitive data, thus preserving privacy and security. Apheris focuses on providing technology that allows multi-party data ecosystems and partnerships, with a strong emphasis on compliance, particularly in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals and biotech. Their technology is trusted by major pharmaceutical companies to support AI-driven drug discovery initiatives without compromising proprietary data.

📋 Description

• Own cloud and application security, including AWS security architecture, IAM, network security, and secure configuration management • Drive and continually improve application security practices, including secure coding guidance, threat modeling support, and automated security testing in the SDLC • Lead the incident response program, including playbook development, on-call readiness, threat detection, and response coordination • Manage vulnerability management processes, ensuring risks are identified, triaged, and remediated effectively with engineering teams • Maintain and evolve security tooling, including monitoring, logging, SIEM/alerting, and secrets management • Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to embed security considerations into design and architectural decisions • Contribute to the unified control framework, ensuring strong security foundations for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 • Own corporate and IT security, including endpoint management (e.g., MDM), identity and access management, and oversight of the external IT provider • Lead security reviews by our customers, acting as a confident, trusted partner to enterprise clients throughout their evaluation process • Stay ahead of emerging threats, technologies, and best practices to continuously uplift Apheris’ security posture

🎯 Requirements

• A degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience in technical roles • 5+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or similar technical security roles • Hands-on expertise with AWS security architecture, identity and access management, network security, and modern DevOps practices • Experience implementing or supporting secure development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, collaborating closely with engineering • Strong understanding of modern authentication, authorization, secrets management, and infrastructure-as-code security • Demonstrated experience handling security incidents, vulnerability management, or threat detection • Demonstrated experience with large-enterprise security and compliance expectations, including how major corporates conduct security reviews and vendor due-diligence processes • Experience maintaining compliance programs such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 • Ability to build strong relationships across engineering and influence secure design decisions • A pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset that balances security, usability, and speed • Experience mentoring team members and helping them grow their security skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation, including early-stage virtual share options • Remote-first working – work where you work best • Wellbeing budget, mental health support, work-from-home budget, co-working stipend, and learning budget • Generous holiday allowance • Office Days at our Berlin HQ or a different European location (3x per year) • A high-caliber, execution-focused team with experience from leading organizations