About the Role
We are looking for a hands‐on Senior Container Security Engineer to lead vulnerability remediation and image hardening across Linux‐based container environments. This role focuses on deep operating system and container security engineering rather than simple vulnerability scanning. You will analyze, remediate, rebuild, harden, and continuously optimize container images used in modern cloud‐native platforms. You will work closely with platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to build automated remediation pipelines, reduce the attack surface, and deliver production‐ready hardened images.
What You'll Do
- Own end‐to‐end CVE remediation across Linux‐based container images.
- Analyze vulnerabilities across OS packages, libraries, runtimes, and dependencies.
- Patch, rebuild, validate, and maintain hardened container images at scale.
- Reduce attack surface by removing unnecessary packages, binaries, services, and dependencies.
- Build and scale automated remediation pipelines for continuous image patching.




- Improve image security posture while minimizing operational disruption.
- Generate, validate, and maintain SBOMs to support supply chain visibility and compliance.
- Integrate remediation workflows into CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
- Optimize image size, startup performance, and operational efficiency.
- Research emerging Linux, container, Kubernetes, and software supply chain threats.
- Troubleshoot complex dependency, package compatibility, and runtime security issues.
- Help define internal standards for hardened images and secure software delivery.

What You Bring
- 5+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, security engineering, or SRE.
- Deep understanding of Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, RHEL).
- Strong hands‐on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerised environments.
- Proven experience remediating CVEs within Linux packages and container ecosystems.
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📌 Senior Container Security Engineer (Italia)
🏢 RapidFort
📍 Italia