Senior Cloud Security Engineer
AlphaSense3 days ago
Base Salary
$161k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and automate security controls for cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
- Maintain, integrate, and scale cloud security posture management and vulnerability platforms.
- Investigate and remediate cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities through closure.
- Design and build access controls across cloud and Kubernetes environments using zero-trust principles.
- Partner with incident response teams to build cloud infrastructure detections and analyze and mitigate security incidents.
- Develop security standards and guardrails and embed them into CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
- Translate ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR requirements into technical controls with compliance teams.
- Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews to identify security risks.
- Lead cross-functional security projects from scoping and planning through completion.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of experience in cloud security or security-focused infrastructure/DevOps engineering.
- Hands-on experience securing containerized environments and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of AWS and ideally GCP, plus infrastructure-as-code solutions.
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, for automation.
- Experience with cloud security posture management or similar security tooling.
- Ability to work independently, own problems end to end, drive projects with minimal direction, and communicate clearly across teams.
- Experience across multiple clouds, security integration into CI/CD and DevOps/GitOps workflows, threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and compliance controls is preferred.
- Contributions to security communities, open-source projects, or security research are preferred.
- Relevant security certifications, such as CKS, are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, benefits, performance-based bonus, equity, and career growth opportunities.
- High autonomy and ownership to shape and drive the cloud security roadmap.
- Collaborative and security-minded engineering culture.
- AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation as required by applicable laws.
- The posting states that AlphaSense never asks candidates to pay for applications, equipment, or training.
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense builds an AI-powered market intelligence and search platform used by investment, corporate strategy, and research teams to find insights across public and private content (equity research, filings, transcripts, expert calls, news, and internal documents). It sells enterprise subscriptions to its SaaS platform and content sets. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and acquired Tegus in 2024; its customers include a majority of the S&P 500.