IT Security Engineer

About the role

Mintos is building a platform that makes investing in income-generating assets simple and accessible, and is expanding rapidly while preparing to obtain a banking license from the European Central Bank. As IT Security Engineer, you will bring hands-on security expertise to a function that is still taking shape, keeping the cloud and on-premise environments secure as the company grows.

Key responsibilities

• Own day-to-day security operations, including monitoring, threat detection and incident response.
• Operate and improve security tooling such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, endpoint protection and antivirus solutions.
• Run security and vulnerability tests, analyse results and write clear vulnerability reports.
• Follow up on vulnerability scans, risk assessments and audits by tracking remediation timelines, updating Jira and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Research security enhancements and emerging threats, and lead the security review of new systems or infrastructure changes.
• Shape security culture through awareness activities, training support and documented processes and controls.

Required profile

• Experience in system and network management, cloud solution administration, security operations or a related role.
• Comfortable working across technical tasks and documentation.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Nice to have: regulated financial services experience, familiarity with DORA, PCI DSS or similar, exposure to CI/CD pipelines, containers or microservices, and experience with security ticketing systems.

Required skills

• Familiarity with key AWS services such as IAM, VPC and CloudWatch.
• Basic scripting in Python, Go or Bash for log analysis and incident response.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Flexibility, including up to 90 days a year working from another country with manager approval.
• Generous vacation policy beyond the legal minimum.
• An annual learning budget of €1,200.
• A well-equipped office with parking, showers, kitchen, massage chair and nap room.