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# Cyber Security Engineer, Elastic (Security Operations)

- **Company:** Bitpanda GmbH
- **Location:** Wien, Austria (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Networking Basics, PCI Data Security Standards, Kusto Query Language, Security Information and Event Management, Datadog, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Cybercrime, Api Management
- **Published:** July 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.at/details/5771146618

## About the Role

* You have 2-4 years of experience in information security, security engineering or security operations, with exposure to incident response, SIEM, threat hunting or cloud security.
 * You enjoy solving technical security problems and have experience writing scripts or automating workflows using APIs or security tooling.
 * You have a solid understanding of AWS or another major cloud platform, networking fundamentals, system hardening and security monitoring. Experience with Elastic Security, ES|QL or KQL is a big plus!
 * You're curious, proactive and eager to learn, taking ownership of your work while seeking opportunities to improve both security and operational efficiency.
 * You communicate effectively, enjoy working collaboratively with engineers across different teams and are excited to grow your expertise in securing systems that serve millions of customers.

## Description

Security is fundamental to the trust millions of customers place in Bitpanda every day. As an Cyber Security Engineer, you'll help protect our platform by detecting threats, responding to incidents and continuously improving the security of our cloud-native environment. Working alongside experienced security engineers, you'll build detections, automate repetitive tasks and investigate security events that help keep our infrastructure, applications and customers safe.

What you'll do

 * Build and improve detections. Develop, test and tune detection rules in Elastic Security (ES|QL/KQL), helping improve detection coverage, reduce false positives and ensure meaningful threats are identified quickly.
 * Investigate security events and hunt for threats. Respond to security alerts, participate in incident response, perform proactive threat hunting across AWS, Elastic and Datadog, and contribute to improving investigation and response processes.
 * Automate security operations. Build scripts, API integrations and SOAR workflows that reduce manual effort, improve investigation quality and help the Security team operate more efficiently.
 * Help secure our cloud platform. Monitor AWS security events, investigate suspicious activity, contribute to system hardening and security tooling improvements, and support initiatives that strengthen Bitpanda's overall security posture.
 * Contribute to a strong security culture. Work closely with engineers across the business, support compliance activities including ISO 27001, PCI DSS and DORA, and help promote security best practices throughout the organisation.


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