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Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
16 days ago
Salary
$115K - $150K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Pax8
• Establish and evolve cloud and platform security hardening standards across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and SaaS platforms • Translate infrastructure architecture into clear, actionable security expectations — and validate they work in practice • Define and enforce least-privilege access models across cloud and Kubernetes identity boundaries • Secure CI/CD systems including federated identity, secrets handling, and environment protections • Validate network security controls and segmentation across the platform estate • Track and report platform security posture using meaningful risk-based metrics • Author reference architectures and decision records that engineering teams can operationalize • Partner closely with DevOps, SRE, and Engineering as the primary platform security authority
Job Requirements
- Substantial experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform security within modern cloud-native environments
- Extensive hands-on AWS expertise across identity, compute, networking, data, and logging services
- Proven operational Kubernetes security knowledge including access controls, network policies, and workload isolation
- Demonstrated ability securing CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery workflows
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code fluency, particularly Terraform, with the ability to review Helm charts
- Experience producing security architectures and design artifacts that teams actively use
- Comfort operating independently, influencing outcomes without formal authority, and partnering deeply with engineers
- Curiosity and exposure to emerging AI and agentic workload security patterns
Benefits
- Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
- Stock options
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
- Generous paid time off and company holidays
- Dedicated learning time with LinkedIn Learning access
- Wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance programs
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