# Cloud Security Specialist – Platforms Engineering

Xona is the navigational intelligence company bringing real-time, centimeter-level certainty to any device, anywhere on Earth. With Pulsar - the world’s most advanced PNT satellite infrastructure in Low Earth Orbit - Xona will offer a future-proof, backwards-compatible global positioning system optimized for absolute precision, superior power, and robust protection. Overview We are seeking a proactive and skilled Cloud Security Specialist to join our dynamic Platforms Engineering team. In this role, you will be the security champion embedded within our platform infrastructure, ensuring that our cloud environments, container orchestration platforms, and developer tooling are secure by design. You will work closely with platform engineers, DevOps, and enterprise security teams to build secure foundational services, automate compliance guardrails, and foster a strong culture of security across the engineering organization. We are seeking a specialized Cloud Security Engineer to anchor security into the core of our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and automating security guardrails across our AWS cloud infrastructure and depl

- **Id**: 662611
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/xonaspace-cloud-security-specialist-platforms-engineering>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Burlingame, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-24T23:45:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T18:11:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 74
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4640
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Security, Satellite Navigation, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 685097
- **Name**: Xona Space Systems
- **Domain**: xonaspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/xonaspace>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 91
- **Open postings**: 50
- **Ghost share**: 0.06
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 84
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 153000
- **Max**: 178000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 178000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CMMC** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **NIST 800-171** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Shift-Left Security** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Go** — Optional: yes
- **Open Policy Agent** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SBOM** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 74

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T21:42:52Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 48
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.807
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 74
- **Expected fill days**: 84
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:late, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 178000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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