About the Role

Join Swiss Re’s Cyber Defence organization and help us fulfil our mission of making the world more resilient. As a Senior Security Engineer - Workload Security & XDR, you will play a key role in designing, engineering, and operating security capabilities protecting endpoints, servers, containers, and cloud-native workloads across Swiss Re’s integral environment.

This role combines deep security engineering expertise with a strong knowledge of modern infrastructure and cloud-native technologies. You will work across endpoint detection and response, workload and container security, forensic capabilities, and email and phishing defence, ensuring security controls are scalable, resilient, automated, and effectively integrated into our Cyber Defence ecosystem.

About the Team

Cyber Defence is the focal point for security monitoring, detection, protection, and response activities across Swiss Re.

You will be part of a highly skilled, international engineering team within the Cyber Defence Product & Engineering unit, working closely with Detection Engineering, Incident Response,



Threat Intelligence, Cloud Security, and infrastructure and platform teams, to continuously improve prevention, detection, investigation, and response capabilities.

In this role, you will...

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Design, engineer, and operate endpoint and workload security capabilities across Windows, Linux, cloud, and containerized environments.

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Design and operate security capabilities for Linux and Kubernetes workloads, including runtime protection, workload visibility, vulnerability management, and behavioral detection.

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Develop, tune, and maintain Falco-based runtime detection rules and security policies using platforms such as Sysdig Secure or equivalent container security technologies.

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Work with enterprise Kubernetes platforms and cloud-native environments such as AKS.

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Integrate and deploy security capabilities through Helm, Argo CD, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring repeatable

📌 Senior Security Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Swiss Re
📍 Madrid