Platform Security Engineer: Secure Cloud & AI-Driven Infra

Quberesearchandtechnologies; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) in New York seeks an experienced security engineer to join its newly established Security team. You will design, build, and operate secure infrastructure platforms that support the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, policy-as-code, automation with Terraform and Kubernetes, and collaboration with engineering, research and analytics teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering or related fields.
• Experience with hybrid cloud security (AWS preferred).
• Deep knowledge of network security, IAM and defence-in-depth.
• Hands-on with containers and Kubernetes, automation and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure platforms for evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Develop reusable security architectures, isolation patterns, trust boundaries and guardrails.
• Evaluate new technologies, identify risks and translate them into practical engineering controls.
• Design security across networks, identity, privileged access, containers, Kubernetes and workload isolation.
• Automate security by default using infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, APIs and software engineering.
• Apply LLMs, AI-assisted tooling and emerging technologies to improve security engineering and automation.
• Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for new infrastructure, software, cloud services, and emerging technologies, translating risks into practical controls.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Engineering, Research, and business teams to deliver secure, usable solutions and communicate risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Network security

IAM / least privilege

Containers / Kubernetes

Terraform

Python / Go / PowerShell

Threat modelling

CI/CD security

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) in New York seeks an experienced security engineer to join its newly established Security team. You will design, build, and operate secure infrastructure platforms that support the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, policy-as-code, automation with Terraform and Kubernetes, and collaboration with engineering, research and analytics teams to deliver secure, scalable systems.