Job Description

A pioneer and market leader in Embedded Banking, Powens Group is committed to supporting financial players in designing services and payment experiences that users love.

Headquartered in Barcelona and Paris, Powens Group is at the forefront of the Banking-as-a-Service and Open Finance movements in Europe and Latin America. Our mission is to offer banking technology as a service to any company aiming to enhance user experience and operational efficiency. We achieve this through our API-based regulated solutions covering Bank accounts, Payment solutions, Open Banking / Finance, and more.

Powens Group is a rapidly growing fintech regulated in France and Spain, allowing operations in all European countries and in Mexico.

We are a trusted partner to the top financial industry players and software editors, and we have achieved this by scouting the best talents. Joining Powens Group means being a part of an inclusive, multicultural, and international team of over 130 employees.

We are looking for a skilled and pragmatic Security Engineer/DevSecOps to help us elevate our infrastructure and application security practices.

You will report directly to the DevOps Engineering Manager and work closely with our CISO to design and implement security measures across our cloud platforms, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling. This is a hands-on role, ideal for someone who loves shipping secure systems, building automation, and solving real-world security challenges.

Your missions:

• Implement and enforce security best practices in our AWS-based infrastructure (IAM, networking, secrets, etc.).

• Implement and enforce security best practices in our OVH infrastructure being as standard as possible with the AWS infrastructure.

• Contribute to Kubernetes and Linux hardening across production workloads.

• Develop and maintain tooling to automate security controls, detection, and alerting.

• Participate in infrastructure and application design reviews from a security standpoint.

• Investigate vulnerabilities and support remediation efforts following internal or external audits/pentests.

• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to shift security left in our SDLC.

• Help document, standardize, and evangelize secure practices across the organization.

Profile and skills required:

• 4+ years of experience in a Security Engineering or Infrastructure Security role

• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS), Linux, and container-based environments

• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Helm, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines

• Scripting or development skills (Python, Bash, or similar)

• Familiarity with security monitoring tools and SIEM solutions

• Solid understanding of common threats, misconfigurations, and mitigation strategies

• Fluent in English (written and spoken), French or Spanish would be a plus

• A pragmatic mindset: you prioritize impact, not checklists

• Experience with Kubernetes security (RBAC, PSP/OPA/Kyverno, admission controllers).

• Exposure to compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, etc.).

• Contributions to security tooling, open source projects, or blog posts.

Women are under-represented in the fintech industry. To women candidates, please dare to take your rightful place!

Powens Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we foster an inclusive and diverse working environment without any form of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability.. If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please let us know to accommodate!