Cloud Security Operations Lead

Verily Health; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 175,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Verily Health is seeking a hands-on Security Operations Tech Lead to advance cloud detection and response across GCP and AWS. You will design high-throughput telemetry pipelines, automate investigations, and partner with Cloud Infra, Platform, and Product Engineering to implement robust security controls.

You will own end-to-end telemetry, apply SRE principles to detection services, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, cost-efficient security solutions for health data and cloud

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in security engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or security operations with production cloud systems.
• Deep technical expertise securing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a strong focus on IAM, VPC networking, cloud logging, and containerized workloads.
• Hands‑on experience developing security detection logic, investigating threats, and engineering security telemetry within an enterprise SIEM or modern analytics platform.
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, distributed systems troubleshooting, and production observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, test, deploy, and continuously improve detections for complex cloud threats, including identity and access abuse, suspicious application activity, data exposure, and container and Kubernetes attacks.
• Drive proactive threat hunting and cloud asset discovery initiatives to identify visibility gaps and prioritize detection coverage across multi-cloud environments.
• Own end-to-end telemetry pipelines that collect, parse, normalize, and enrich cloud audit, network, and application logs, balancing investigative value, retention, data protection, and cost efficiency.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to telemetry and detection services, establishing SLOs/SLIs for data freshness, availability, and completeness while building actionable alerting, recovery procedures, and capacity plans.
• Develop software, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automated workflows to reduce manual toil and technical debt, enforcing code review, automated testing, version control, and CI/CD deployment practices for detection content.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security (GCP/AWS)

IAM & VPC networking

Security telemetry & SIEM

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Humio/LogScale

BigQuery

Snowflake

GKE

EKS

Job description

Verily Health is seeking a hands-on Security Operations Tech Lead to advance cloud detection and response across GCP and AWS. You will design high-throughput telemetry pipelines, automate investigations, and partner with Cloud Infra, Platform, and Product Engineering to implement robust security controls.

You will own end-to-end telemetry, apply SRE principles to detection services, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable, cost-efficient security solutions for health data and cloud