Cloud Security Lead: Guardrails for Cloud & AI

Lila Sciences; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Life & Disability insurance

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Education benefits

Commuter benefits

Lunch program

Job summary

Lila Sciences is hiring a Senior Engineer II, Cloud Security to strengthen cloud and SaaS security across our infrastructure, platforms, and AI-enabled systems. This role will own hands-on security work across cloud posture management, detection and response, container and workload security, identity and privileged access, and security automation.

This role sits within IT & Security and partners closely with infrastructure, platform, data, DevSecOps, and AI teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on information security with cloud and SaaS security ownership.
• Strong AWS security knowledge, including IAM, SCPs, VPC, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config.
• Hands-on experience with CSPM or CNAPP tooling such as Wiz or comparable platforms.
• Experience operating detection and response workflows across SIEM, EDR, CSPM, or related tooling.
• Practical incident response experience, including triage, containment, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Strong understanding of workload, container, and Kubernetes security.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
• Experience securing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, OPA, Sentinel, or native cloud policies.
• Strong grasp of IAM, identity federation, least-privilege access, SaaS permission models, and privileged access management practices.
• Ability to translate technical findings into business risk and partner cross-functionally with cloud, DevOps, AppSec, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud and SaaS security posture management across AWS, IaaS/PaaS, and core SaaS platforms.
• Tune CSPM, CNAPP, and SSPM tooling to surface and prioritize risk.
• Drive remediation of cloud, SaaS, and workload findings with infra teams.
• Build high-fidelity detections across SIEM, EDR, CSPM, and related security systems.
• Lead incident response triage, containment, recovery, and post-incident review for cloud security events.
• Strengthen cloud-native workload and container security across AWS, Kubernetes, hardened AMIs, and network controls.
• Design policy-as-code and guardrails that prevent insecure deployments without slowing developer velocity.
• Partner with AI, data, and platform teams to mature security controls for MLOps pipelines and AI-enabled platforms.

Skills

Cloud security ownership

AWS security

Scripting & automation

Incident response

Kubernetes security

IAM / Privileged access

IaC security (Terraform/CloudFormation

Tools

Wiz

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Lila Sciences is hiring a Senior Engineer II, Cloud Security to strengthen cloud and SaaS security across our infrastructure, platforms, and AI-enabled systems. This role will own hands-on security work across cloud posture management, detection and response, container and workload security, identity and privileged access, and security automation.

This role sits within IT & Security and partners closely with infrastructure, platform, data, DevSecOps, and AI teams.