Lead Cloud Infra & Security Engineer

Vouch; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Parental leave

Flexible vacation time

Wellness allowance

Technology allowance

Company-sponsored development

L&D partnerships

Wellbeing perks

Caregiver Support

Job summary

Vouch, a Chicago-based insurtech, is seeking a senior Infra & Security Engineering lead. You will own architecture, cloud platform reliability, and security operations, guiding DevOps and security teams through complex infrastructure challenges.

The role emphasizes implementing IAM controls, incident response, and compliance programs, with a focus on scalable, AI-forward infrastructure and isolating data while collaborating across Legal, Finance, IT, and Engineering.

Qualifications

• Expert level cloud engineering experience in AWS, designing and operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong in CI/CD (CircleCI, Nomad) and Terraform-based IaC with proven reliability ownership.
• Apply security pragmatically: isolation, least-privilege, RBAC, blast-radius containment.
• Formal background in information security or cybersecurity, with experience leading a SOC 2 audit.
• Has led at least one enterprise security breach or data-leak incident response.
• Hands-on technical lead capable of architecture, standards, code review, and setting direction.
• Bias toward simplicity and subtraction.
• AI-forward thinking: isolation, safe data, and non-human identity infrastructure.
• Communicate clearly across engineering, IT/Security, Legal, and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical DRI for Infra & Security: own architecture, set standards, and make technical calls across infra, DevOps, and security.
• Own the cloud platform end-to-end: reliability, CI/CD, delivery automation, and the infrastructure-as-code beneath them.
• Shrink surface area: retire legacy services, consolidate SaaS, and unwind external dependencies.
• Own infra & security incident-response: rotation, no single point of failure, actionable alerting, runbooks.
• Bring identity and access under a single source of truth: human, service, machine, and agent identity.
• Build Production-agent Infrastructure enabling autonomous agents to run and verify in production.
• Drive and maintain security-compliance and supply-chain scanning programs.

Skills

AWS Cloud Engineering

CI/CD Automation

Terraform (IaC)

Security Compliance

SOC 2 Audit

Technical Leadership

Cross-team Communication

Isolation Patterns

AI-forward Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity

Tools

CircleCI

Nomad

Temporal (workflow)

Snyk

Endor Labs

1Password

AWS SSM

Job description

Vouch, a Chicago-based insurtech, is seeking a senior Infra & Security Engineering lead. You will own architecture, cloud platform reliability, and security operations, guiding DevOps and security teams through complex infrastructure challenges.

The role emphasizes implementing IAM controls, incident response, and compliance programs, with a focus on scalable, AI-forward infrastructure and isolating data while collaborating across Legal, Finance, IT, and Engineering.