Ground-Floor Security & Infrastructure Engineer (Biotech)

NewLimit; United States; On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

20 days PTO

Parental leave

Meals on-site

Job summary

NewLimit is seeking a Security & Infrastructure Engineer to build the security, infrastructure, and internal systems foundation for a clinical-stage biotech. You will own identity, endpoints, cloud security, and the operational backbone across corporate, lab, and research environments.

You'll shape security standards, scale operations with modular solutions, and leverage automation and AI to maximize impact, reporting to the Head of Computational Sciences.

Qualifications

• Several years in security engineering, SRE, platform, or infrastructure.
• Fluency with identity providers, endpoint management, AWS security tooling, backups, and operational systems of record.
• Proven ability to scale security operations with modular solutions (in-house or MSP/MDR).
• Experience supporting technical or laboratory environments with MSPs and vendors.
• Demonstrated use of AI agents and automation to multiply work.
• Ability to communicate clearly with scientists, operators, executives, vendors, auditors, and sponsors.

Responsibilities

• Own identity and access end to end with least-privilege, phishing-resistant auth, and SSO across core apps.
• Set security standards for macOS and Windows endpoints (encryption, patch posture, device compliance, remote lock/wipe).
• Own security operations: monitoring, detection, alerting, response, and post-incident reporting with MSP/MDR/IR.
• Own secure operational backbone across corporate, lab, and cloud: integrations, data transfers, vendor systems, backup, recovery, continuity, and access.
• Build internal tooling and automation for onboarding, access reviews, security reporting, and agent/LLM governance.

Skills

AI automation

Security design

Vendor management

Communication with scientists

Tools

AWS security tooling

Job description

NewLimit is seeking a Security & Infrastructure Engineer to build the security, infrastructure, and internal systems foundation for a clinical-stage biotech. You will own identity, endpoints, cloud security, and the operational backbone across corporate, lab, and research environments.

You'll shape security standards, scale operations with modular solutions, and leverage automation and AI to maximize impact, reporting to the Head of Computational Sciences.