Senior Security Engineer
Core
Own security across cloud environments (primarily AWS), focusing on cloud posture, detection pipelines for threats like credential abuse and privilege escalation, identity management, and embedding security into CI/CD pipelines.
Role type
Senior Security Engineer (Cloud/DevOps)
Builds
Detection pipelines, IAM policies, IaC security controls, and security education programs for engineering teams.
Domain
Cloud Security, AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Container Security
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud security engineering, AWS services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, CloudTrail, KMS, IAM), Infrastructure as Code, Scripting (Python, Go, Bash), Kubernetes
Preferred skills
Security risk communication, Pragmatic security implementation
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Bash, Terraform (implied by IaC)
Responsibilities
Build detection pipelines for credential abuse and anomalous API usage; Enforce least-privilege IAM policies at scale; Embed security into CI/CD pipelines; Educate engineering teams on security best practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC