Remote SecOps Engineer - Cloud Security & Detection

Synthesia; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly environment

Competitive salary + stock options

100% Medical, Dental & Vision

401k Plan

Paid parental leave

25 days annual leave + holidays + sick

Brand new computer + monitor

Conference travel support

Referral scheme

Job summary

Synthesia is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Infosec team and help protect our cloud, container, and CI/CD environments in a fast-growing, remote-friendly SaaS setting. You will drive security tooling, detection, and automation across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and IaC, reporting to the Head of Security.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, incident response, and building secure-by-default platform patterns with modern tooling and scripting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering in cloud-first SaaS environments.
• Ability to implement security improvements hands-on in AWS and/or GCP.
• Experience with Kubernetes security and container ecosystems.
• Strong programming/scripting ability (Python).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD security.
• Incident response and automation experience.
• Experience with security tooling and threat detection workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and own deeply technical security improvements across Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, shipping production changes as needed.
• Design, implement, and iterate on detection and response capabilities (SIEM, EDR/MDR, CNAPP) with automation.
• Hunt, investigate, and respond to security alerts end-to-end (triage to recovery).
• Build internal security tooling and automations (IaC, scripts, integrations) to reduce toil and raise security bar by default.

Skills

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

CI/CD security

Python scripting

Infrastructure as code

Incident response

Security tooling

Education

AWS Certified Security

GIAC GWEB

OSCP

CSSLP

Tools

CrowdStrike

Terraform

Okta

Google Workspace

Github

StepSecurity

Dope Security

Job description

Synthesia is seeking a Security Engineer to join the Infosec team and help protect our cloud, container, and CI/CD environments in a fast-growing, remote-friendly SaaS setting. You will drive security tooling, detection, and automation across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and IaC, reporting to the Head of Security.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, incident response, and building secure-by-default platform patterns with modern tooling and scripting.