Bare Metal & Private Cloud Security Engineer

Cybersecurity Jobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 258,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Vision, and Dental

401(k) retirement plan

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Discounts and perks

$100,000 - $258,000 USD base salary

Job summary

SpaceXAI in New York, NY is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Security Engineer to build and protect physical to platform stack, focusing on hardening bare metal and private-cloud foundations and securing hybrid connectivity across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will design secure architectures, enforce CIS benchmarks, manage firmware lifecycle, and integrate security into CI/CD, with a base salary of $100,000 to $258,000 USD and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in infrastructure security, platform security, or related hands‑on roles.
• Proven experience securing bare-metal, data-center, or private-cloud environments (not cloud-only).
• Hands-on experience with firmware, BMC/iDRAC/iLO, and PXE/Kickstart provisioning, including hardware lifecycle security.
• Strong proficiency with Puppet for configuration management and fleet hardening in production.
• Strong understanding of network security concepts and protocols, including hands-on work with firewalls, segmentation, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with hybrid identity such as AD/LDAP integrated or federated with cloud IAM.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (e.g., Terraform) applied to physical or VM fleets.
• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes security implications for on-premises or bare-metal clusters.
• Experience with automation and tool development using Python, Bash, and Golang.
• Familiarity with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and NIST CSF.
• Experience with regulated financial platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure bare-metal and private-cloud architectures, including servers, storage, out-of-band management, and firmware posture.
• Harden fleets with Linux/Windows baselines, CIS benchmarks, patching, and secure boot measures.
• Perform hands-on hardware security across firmware and lifecycle security.
• Build and secure network foundations on real hardware, including segmentation, load balancers, DNS, PKI, NAC, and IDS/IPS.
• Own security for hybrid connectivity between on-prem and cloud (site-to-site VPN, Direct Connect/Interconnect, SD‑WAN, zero-trust).
• Manage identities across hybrid environments using AD/LDAP/Kerberos and cloud IAM.
• Support security assessments and audits of physical, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.
• Monitor and remediate to align with PCI, NIST CSF, GDPR, HIPAA.

Skills

Bare-metal security

Private cloud security

Linux security

Windows security

Firewall & IDS

PKI & IAM

Python

Terraform

Puppet

Kubernetes security

CI/CD security

SIEM

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Puppet

Terraform

Kubernetes

iDRAC / BMC

PXE / Kickstart

AD / LDAP / Kerberos

SAML/OIDC

Job description

SpaceXAI in New York, NY is seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Security Engineer to build and protect physical to platform stack, focusing on hardening bare metal and private-cloud foundations and securing hybrid connectivity across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will design secure architectures, enforce CIS benchmarks, manage firmware lifecycle, and integrate security into CI/CD, with a base salary of $100,000 to $258,000 USD and a comprehensive benefits package.