[Hiring] Senior Cloud Security Engineer @Pax8

Role Description

Senior Cloud Security Engineer role at Pax8 in the USA — build and secure cloud platforms powering the world’s leading managed intelligence marketplace.

This is a high-impact opportunity to own and shape the security posture of Pax8’s cloud and platform ecosystem. You’ll operate at the intersection of security, engineering, and emerging AI-driven technologies — helping protect a fast-scaling global marketplace while growing alongside rapidly evolving cloud and platform capabilities.

What you’ll do

• Establish and evolve cloud and platform security hardening standards across AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and SaaS platforms
• Translate infrastructure architecture into clear, actionable security expectations — and validate they work in practice
• Define and enforce least-privilege access models across cloud and Kubernetes identity boundaries
• Secure CI/CD systems including federated identity, secrets handling, and environment protections
• Validate network security controls and segmentation across the platform estate
• Track and report platform security posture using meaningful risk-based metrics
• Author reference architectures and decision records that engineering teams can operationalize
• Partner closely with DevOps, SRE, and Engineering as the primary platform security authority

Your impact

Your work directly reduces risk, limits blast radius, and enables Pax8 engineers to move fast with confidence. You’ll influence platform design decisions that protect partners, customers, and the marketplace at global scale.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in cloud, infrastructure, or platform security within modern cloud-native environments
• Extensive hands-on AWS expertise across identity, compute, networking, data, and logging services
• Proven operational Kubernetes security knowledge including access controls, network policies, and workload isolation
• Demonstrated ability securing CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery workflows
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code fluency, particularly Terraform, with the ability to review Helm charts
• Experience producing security architectures and design artifacts that teams actively use
• Comfort operating independently, influencing outcomes without formal authority, and partnering deeply with engineers
• Curiosity and exposure to emerging AI and agentic workload security patterns

Benefits

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
• Stock options
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Dedicated learning time with LinkedIn Learning access
• Wellbeing initiatives and employee assistance programs
• Salary Range: $115,000-$150,000 per year

Your growth

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential.

Equal opportunities

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