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Staff Security DevOps Engineer (SPIR/OC)

Coupang

Industry
Internet
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Work mode
-
Job type
-
Annual salary
Not specified
Minimum experience
7+ years
Posted
22nd July, 2026

Required skills

DevOpsE-CommerceIdentity & Access ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisInformation SecurityCybersecurityBashPythonAWSKubernetesDocker

About the role

Translated into English from Korean by Korum. The employer's original wording is on their site.

Company Introduction

Coupang exists to deliver customer delight. When customers say, “How did we ever live without Coupang?”, we know we are fulfilling our mission. With the single-minded determination to make our customers’ shopping, dining and daily lives easier, Coupang is leading innovation across the multi-billion-dollar e-commerce industry. Coupang is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce companies and has built a unique position in the domestic commerce industry and the trust of its customers. 

We pride ourselves on being a large, global listed company grounded in startup culture. This preserves the agility we had at our founding and is the growth engine behind our continuous launch of new services and expansion of our business. Every Coupang employee has the opportunity to show entrepreneurial spirit and drive new innovations and initiatives. Boldness to dive into work without hesitation and achieve results is the essence of how Coupang works. At Coupang, you will witness yourself, your colleagues, your team and the whole company growing every day.

Every Coupang employee is genuinely committed to Coupang’s mission of building the future of commerce. We solve customer problems, challenge conventional thinking and received wisdom, and push beyond what is considered achievable. If you want an amazing work experience in an always-on, high-tech, hyper-connected world, join Coupang today.

Job Introduction
 
The Security DevOps Engineer at SPIR/OC supports Coupang’s security and privacy services so they run stably and efficiently, enabling employees to effectively protect customer trust and data in a supportive environment. This role is responsible for operating and supporting a range of security and privacy services, including Vulnerability Management, Data Scanning, Identity & Access Management, and Security Design & Code Review. It also helps employees quickly identify and resolve issues arising while using security services, and provides the best possible user experience.

As a Security DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with security specialists from many fields and continuously improve service operation processes based on support cases and operational experience. Through this, you will build and manage operational playbooks and share best practices with related operations teams, helping to raise overall operational maturity. You will also collect and analyse operational metrics and derive engineering-driven improvements that raise operational efficiency and quality. Coupang manages Service Level Objectives (SLOs) on a data-driven operational culture and measures service performance using Service Level Indicators (SLIs). Accordingly, you will collect and analyse event data and perform Root Cause Analysis to help security and privacy services consistently achieve their target SLOs.

Key Responsibilities
  • Respond to and analyse support requests for security and privacy services
  • Diagnose the work required to meet the SLO/SLI targets of security and privacy services
  • Take part in writing operational playbooks to support end users
  • Build dashboards to measure service operation quality and actionable metrics
  • Set service thresholds and respond to alerts when SLO/SLI targets are missed
  • Work effectively with users to resolve their enquiries and share experience to improve service quality
  • Collaborate effectively with internal and external teams through efficient communication
  • Improve security processes to strengthen the company’s security posture, taking into account company-wide processes and requirements
Requirements
  • 10+ years of information security experience, or 8+ years of DevOps experience backed by a strong interest in cybersecurity
  • Experience supporting the operation of security services (vulnerability scanning, data security, IAM, etc.)
  • Skills in analysing large volumes of data or logs to support decision-making
  • Ability to write technical support materials and documentation for end users and engineers
  • Experience with automation and scripting using Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.
  • Positive work attitude• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of AWS operations
  • Knowledge of container environments (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
  • Experience with automation and scripting using Bash, Python, PowerShell, etc.
  • CISSP 
  • English, Korean, Chinese

 Selection Process and Important Information

  • Selection Process
    • Document screening - telephone interview - in-person (video) interview - final decision
    • The selection process may differ by job and may change depending on schedule and circumstances.
    • Selection schedule and results will be notified individually to the email address registered on your application.
  • Notes
    • This posting may close early once recruitment is complete.
    • If any information in your application is false, your offer may be cancelled.
    • Employment protection recipients (veterans, persons with disabilities, etc.) may receive preferential treatment in accordance with relevant laws.
    • Job level and scope of responsibilities may be changed in consideration of the candidate’s overall career and experience. If such a change is necessary, the candidate will be contacted at an appropriate time before the final offer notification.
    • Hiring may be restricted if the statutory qualifications required for recruitment and performance of the job are not met.

Personal Information Processing Policy 

  • The Coupang Group collects and processes your personal information in accordance with its Job Applicant Personal Information Processing Policy (link below). https://www.coupang.jobs/kr/privacy-policy/

Document Return Policy 

  1. This notice is provided pursuant to Article 11(6) of the Act on Fair Hiring Procedures.
  2. Applicants who are not selected in the final decision may request the return of the hiring documents they submitted, in accordance with the Act on Fair Hiring Procedures. However, this does not apply to documents submitted via the website or by email, or to documents voluntarily submitted without the company’s request. If hiring documents are lost due to natural disaster or other reasons not attributable to the company, they will be deemed returned.
  3. Applicants requesting the return of hiring documents under paragraph 2 above shall complete a hiring document return request form [Form No. 3 of the Enforcement Rules of the Act on Fair Hiring Procedures] and submit it by email ([contact details removed]). Documents will be sent by registered mail to the address specified within 14 days from the date submission is confirmed. In this case, the registered postage will be payable by the recipient, so please keep this in mind. 
  4. To prepare for return requests under paragraph 2 above, the company will keep the original hiring documents submitted by applicants for 180 days from the date the hiring decision is confirmed. If no return is requested by then, all hiring documents will be destroyed without delay in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
  5. However, paragraphs 1 to 4 above apply only where the labour laws of the Republic of Korea apply. They do not apply in other cases.

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