Senior Cloud Security Architect II

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 149,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Total Rewards package

Hybrid work model

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer II to join our Security Engineering function as a senior IC and technical leader for cloud security. You will define standards, reference patterns, and drive security initiatives across AWS, GCP, and self-managed systems.

You will own threat modeling, detection engineering, and incident response, while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for platform security in a large-scale cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Several years owning cloud security in production — on-call for it, not adjacent to it.
• Hands-on, not theoretical: AWS as primary cloud, working GCP, self-managed Kubernetes.
• You read and write code (Python, TF).

Responsibilities

• Define the cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures that Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering build on.
• Set objectives and roadmap for high-impact cloud security work; drive to measurable outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional security initiatives end to end; guide technical debates to a decision.
• Mentor and uplevel other security engineers through pairing and design reviews.

Skills

AWS security

GCP security

Kubernetes security

Python

Terraform

On-call experience

Tools

CrowdStrike

Tenable

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer II to join our Security Engineering function as a senior IC and technical leader for cloud security. You will define standards, reference patterns, and drive security initiatives across AWS, GCP, and self-managed systems.

You will own threat modeling, detection engineering, and incident response, while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for platform security in a large-scale cloud environment.