unacast

unacast

Senior Cloud & Security Engineer

Ashburn, Virginia, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$170kDetected 11 days ago
PythonJavaScalaSpringSQLSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsDevOpsRESTData AnalysisLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceAgileSupply ChainHRFirewallCommunicationAdaptability

About the role

  • Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this is a hands-on role responsible for designing, implementing, and operating security controls across AWS infrastructure and services.
  • The role extends beyond AWS, covering broader security responsibilities across the company's systems and access environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain security controls and policies across AWS environments to protect systems and data.
  • Lead the integration of security practices into the DevOps lifecycle, promoting secure development, deployment, and operational processes.
  • Utilize AWS security tooling and security services to support detection, prevention, and continuous improvement of cloud security posture.
  • Identify, assess, and drive remediation of security risks and vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure in partnership with engineering teams.
  • Support incident response, penetration test findings, and security audit remediation, including containment, investigation, and post-incident follow-up.
  • Maintain security policies, documentation, and internal security standards.
  • Support customer security reviews and respond to security questionnaires as needed.
  • Support compliance initiatives such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 as needed.
  • Establish and maintain the company's AI usage policy, including approved tools, acceptable use guidelines, and data handling requirements for AI assistants, coding agents, and LLM-based services.
  • Educate engineering and non-technical teams on safe AI practices, including prompt hygiene, awareness of prompt injection and data exfiltration risks, and secure use of agentic tools perform actions within company systems.

Requirements

  • All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

Nice to have

  • 5+ years' experience in Java 8 and higher software development with the Java Spring Framework used for REST APIs.
  • Snowflake SQL is strongly preferred.
  • Proficiency working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and utilizing its many services.
  • For example AWS Elastic Container Service for application deployment or AWS X-Ray for debugging.
  • Experience processing data efficiently in JSON and GeoJSON.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such Scala, Python or other similar programming languages.
  • Demonstrated ability to quickly and efficiently break down larger projects to smaller tasks, and handle multiple projects and tasks at the same time.
  • Experience in software or engineering projects from ideation, through development and into production.

Compensation

  • The typical base salary range for this role is $130,000 to $170,000.

Benefits

  • We offer competitive salaries and benefits and unlimited PTO.
  • job type, job level, internal equity and budget.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • If you are living with a disability (visible or not visible), we will provide a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process.
  • To request an accommodation in connection with the application or recruiting process, please contact Human Resources at 703-840-8850.
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