
Security Engineer – Infrastructure Security
1mind
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $250,000 per year
About the role
- Design and build layered security controls across OS, Kubernetes, networks, identity, and CI/CD to protect high-value assets.
- Drive deployment of security enhancements and policy changes across multi-region infrastructure.
- Lead high-impact initiatives: checkpoint/model artifact protection and encryption, network isolation and segmentation, secrets and machine identity, policy-as-code, and secure storage/access pathways.
- Automate detection, prevention, and response with guardrails and paved paths (IaC modules, validated baselines, admission controls).
- Embed security into developer workflows (shift-left reviews, SAST/DAST/SCA, SBOM, provenance), and instrument robust observability for security signals.
- Partner on risk assessments, threat modeling, and incident response; deliver postmortems and durable mitigations.
- Champion a healthy security culture that enables rapid iteration while meeting reliability, safety, and compliance expectations.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of security principles, common vulnerabilities, and practical defenses across infra and application layers.
- 5+ years building and operating core infrastructure security or platform security at scale.
- Expertise securing cloud platforms (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP), including cloud networking, identity, and cloud-agnostic abstractions.
- Experience with datacenter security from construction/bring-up to multi-tenant operations.
- Familiarity with container/Kubernetes security (workload identity, admission controls, policy engines, image supply chain).
- Proven track record delivering scalable, automated security solutions and moving organizations via tooling and paved paths.
- Strong analytical/problem-solving skills; crisp communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Plus: Service mesh and mTLS, HSM/KMS and envelope encryption, OPA/rego, attestation & provenance, TPM/PKI, confidential computing, GPU/accelerator security, compliance frameworks.
Benefits
- health insurance
- retirement plans
- paid time off
- flexible work arrangements
- professional development
- bonuses
- stock options
- equipment allowances
- wellness programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
security principlescloud securityKubernetes securityinfrastructure securityautomated security solutionspolicy-as-codeSASTDASTSCAcompliance frameworks
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skills