Founding Platform & Security Engineer (AWS/DevOps) – Equity, Hybrid

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive healthcare and benefits

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Hybrid working

Job summary

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd is helping a fast-growing, VC-backed AI company in New York City recruit a Founding Platform & Security Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, DevOps and security.

This hands-on role lets you modernize the cloud, automate SOC 2 compliance, and design tooling to support a scaling engineering team, reporting directly to the CTO.

4 days onsite, equity, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k) and flexible PTO are included as the company builds a security‑first data platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Platform/Infra/DevOps/Security
• Experience building infrastructure and security from scratch in regulated B2B SaaS
• Hands-on SOC 2 compliance in production
• FinTech/InsurTech/HealthTech background preferred
• Python or Node.js experience bonus

Responsibilities

• Own AWS infrastructure, DevOps and security
• Modernize cloud infra across compute, storage, networking
• Establish platform procedures, controls and tooling
• Automate SOC 2 compliance, audits and incident response
• Build CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Strengthen application security and data protection
• Improve monitoring, observability and reliability
• Advise CTO on infra and security strategy

Skills

Platform/Infra/DevOps

Security engineering

Cloud infrastructure

Autonomy

Startup experience

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IT Recruitment Solutions Ltd is helping a fast-growing, VC-backed AI company in New York City recruit a Founding Platform & Security Engineer to own AWS infrastructure, DevOps and security.

This hands-on role lets you modernize the cloud, automate SOC 2 compliance, and design tooling to support a scaling engineering team, reporting directly to the CTO.

4 days onsite, equity, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k) and flexible PTO are included as the company builds a security‑first data platform.