Cloud Security Engineer

We are seeking a hands-on Cloud Security Engineer to help secure the infrastructure and platforms that power our global FinTech systems. In this role, you will work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security engineering, and DevSecOps to identify attack surfaces, strengthen security guardrails, and embed security directly into our engineering workflows. You will focus on securing our AWS environments, container platforms, and deployment pipelines while helping engineers design systems that are resilient to real-world threats.

You will collaborate closely with platform engineers, DevOps teams, and application developers to proactively identify risks, automate security controls, and improve the overall security posture of our systems. This role requires someone who can think like an attacker but build like an engineer. You are someone who enjoys identifying weaknesses, designing preventative controls, and building security automation that scales with the platform.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and secure attack surfaces across our AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, and internal platforms by proactively assessing misconfigurations, access risks, and exposed services.
• Design and implement preventative cloud security guardrails, including IAM hardening, network controls, secrets management, and infrastructure security best practices.
• Conduct security design reviews for new services and infrastructure changes to identify architectural risks before systems reach production.
• Build and integrate security checks directly into CI/CD pipelines to enforce automated scanning for vulnerabilities, container images, infrastructure configurations, and application dependencies.
• Develop automation and internal tooling to detect, prevent, and remediate security issues such as leaked secrets, excessive permissions, insecure configurations, and vulnerable dependencies.
• Perform threat modeling and adversarial analysis of infrastructure and application systems to identify realistic attack paths and improve system defenses.
• Improve visibility into the security posture of our systems through monitoring, logging, and security signal generation across cloud infrastructure and workloads.
• Investigate security incidents and vulnerabilities, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate closely with platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams to ensure security is embedded in development workflows and infrastructure design.
• Contribute to building scalable security practices, including vulnerability management processes, security automation frameworks, and infrastructure security standards.

Requirements:

• 4-8 years of experience in cloud security, DevSecOps, security engineering, or related roles involving infrastructure and application security.
• Strong understanding of applied cryptography and ability to choose the right security tools, techniques, and approach for securing systems from a variety of threats.
• Strong hands-on experience securing AWS environments, including IAM policies, networking controls, access management, logging, and infrastructure hardening.
• Practical experience working with Kubernetes and containerized environments, including securing container images, workloads, and cluster configurations.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows, including automated vulnerability scanning and dependency security checks.
• Ability to write automation and security tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or similar.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and an understanding of securing infrastructure configurations and deployment pipelines.
• Experience identifying and remediating cloud security risks such as excessive IAM permissions, exposed services, insecure secrets management, and vulnerable infrastructure components.
• Understanding of common cloud and application security threats, including privilege escalation, credential leakage, network exposure, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to think adversarially about systems and proactively identify potential attack paths.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills (verbal as well as written) with the ability to work closely with engineering teams and other stakeholders to improve security posture without slowing development velocity.
• Bonus experience includes security research, penetration testing, bug bounty participation, building internal security tooling, or contributions to security-focused open-source projects.
• Bonus abilities include the ability to lead and mentor a team and the ability to drive complex projects spanning code bases, systems, and people.

Skills

AWS, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, cybersecurity, k8s, security