Senior Cloud Security Engineer

• AlphaSense as a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, where you'll have the opportunity to improve the security of our cloud environments.
• Ideal candidates have a strong cloud security background, experience with containerized environments and Kubernetes, and proficiency in programming or scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• This hands-on role allows for high autonomy, as you'll own security projects from start to finish and lead them to measurable outcomes.
• Responsibilities include designing and automating security controls, investigating and remediating vulnerabilities, building access controls, and working with compliance teams.
• Design, develop, and automate security controls for cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, and maintain, integrate, and scale cloud security tooling.
• Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure, and drive remediation through to closure, while partnering with incident response teams.
• Develop security standards and guardrails for other engineering teams, and embed them into CI/CD and GitOps workflows, ensuring adherence to compliance frameworks.
• You will have autonomy and are expected to think independently, take ownership of your work, and act as a self-starter and problem solver
• Hands-on experience working with compliance requirements and turning them into technical controls
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling and security architecture reviews

Requirements

• Ideal candidates have a strong cloud security background with the ability to work hands-on with the infrastructure; we also welcome applicants with a DevOps/infrastructure engineering background and a keen interest in developing their skills in the cloud security space
• To be successful in this role you should have solid experience with containerised environments, infrastructure as code and Kubernetes across a multi-cloud (AWS and GCP) estate
• 5-7+ years of experience in cloud security, or in security-focused infrastructure/DevOps engineering

Hands-on experience securing containerized environments and Kubernetes

• Experience working with cloud security posture management or similar security tooling
• Strong understanding of AWS (ideally GCP as well) and infrastructure-as-code solutions
• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g., Python) for automation
• A self-starter and problem solver who can own problems end to end, drive projects with minimal direction, and communicate clearly across teams
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CKS)
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps workflows

Preferred

• Contributions to security communities, open-source projects, or security research
• Experience across multiple clouds (AWS and GCP)

Pay

USD 161,000 - 185,000