Platform - Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Referral Board; Canada (KY); Remote; USD 154,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to operate within a multi-cloud environment. The role involves vulnerability management, automation, and designing security controls with a focus on collaboration. Candidates should have experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and strong problem-solving skills. This position offers a competitive salary range of $154,800 - $190,000 USD with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Health coverage for family

Flexible work locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Matching financial donations

Paid volunteer hours

Parental leave of at least 16 weeks

Qualifications

• Experience operating in a multi-cloud environment.
• Passionate about learning and sharing skills.
• Comfortable with synchronous and asynchronous communication in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a collaborative team focused on security.
• Manage vulnerabilities, access automation, and control monitoring.
• Deploy security into new environments within cloud platforms.

Skills

Critical thinking

Excellent interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Comfort with GitHub

Tools

Hashicorp Vault

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

IBM Cloud

GoLang

Python

Java

Scala

Job description

Platform - Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Canada; United States

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer that has experience operating in a multi-cloud environment along with a fast paced engineering and development team.

What You Will Be Doing:

Working as part of an open, fast paced and highly collaborative team environment with software like Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, and Ansible.

Responsible for efforts involving vulnerability management, access automation, and continuous control monitoring.

Collaboration with talented engineers and developers to deploy into new environments with security in mind.

Designing, implementing, and maintaining controls for a large-multi cloud environment leveraging AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM.

What You Bring:

You are a critical thinker and are passionate about learning and growing your skillset and love to openly share your experiences with the team

You've had exposure to Cloud environments like AWS, Azure, and GCP and are familiar with automation in these environment

You can operate within a GitHub driven organization and are comfortable communicating to large audiences over email and in real time with chat programs such as Slack or video "face-to-face" in Zoom.

Excellent interpersonal skills, an outstanding team member mentality, with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills

Bonus Points:

Your approach to security is pragmatic - you think of the right solutions that meet security standards but are creative as to not hinder development and engineering progress

You love to learn new things and strive to continuously learn and challenge yourself and others

You feel comfortable working in a remote environment and can communicate both synchronously and asynchronously with a team that's distributed across multiple time zones

Background in coding with languages such as GoLang, Python, and familiarity with Java and Scala

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program.

Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $154,800 - $190,000 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in select locations is: $154,800 - $190,000 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role is: $154,000 - $185,600 CAD

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals.