Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Beyond Finance; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision programs

PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave

401(k) matching

Job summary

Beyond Finance in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to harden our AWS environment and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on Wiz-based vulnerability management and secure defaults in infrastructure.

You will partner with DevOps and Engineering to implement preventative controls across IAM, networking, containers, and data exposure, while scaling automation and threat modeling. The role includes a base salary with bonus eligibility and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across cloud security and vulnerability management.
• Strong AWS security background including IAM, networking, containers, logging.
• Hands-on experience securing CI/CD pipelines and Terraform.
• Experience running vulnerability management programs.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and threat modeling.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud security posture across AWS with Wiz and native services.
• Establish secure defaults in infrastructure as code.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps.
• Manage vulnerability intake, prioritization, and remediation with engineering.
• Build scalable automation for data ingestion and developer workflows.
• Instrument telemetry, alerting, and runbooks for owned systems.
• Operate and tune the WAF with rules and rate limiting.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS security

Terraform

CI/CD security

Threat modeling

Independent execution

Tools

Wiz

Cloudflare

GitHub Advanced Security

Spacelift

AWS-native services

WAF management

Job description

At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care,a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

The Role

As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll harden the security posture of our AWS environment and our software development pipeline. Cloud Security and vulnerability management in Wiz are the primary focus.

You'll partner with DevOps, Engineering, and our Application Security Engineer to build preventative controls across infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD. The work is hands-on: configuring tooling, reviewing architecture, hardening pipelines, and supporting application security work where your range is needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Own cloud security posture across our AWS environment using Wiz and AWS-native services, reducing risk across IAM, network segmentation, container security, secrets, and data exposure.
• Establish secure defaults in our Infrastructure as Code through reusable modules, guardrails, and policy as code.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines in partnership with DevOps.
• Run vulnerability management across cloud and application findings: intake, prioritization, SLA tracking, and remediation with engineering.
• Build automation that scales the program: ingestion, deduplication, prioritization, and developer-facing workflows.
• Instrument telemetry, alerting, and runbooks for the systems you own.
• Operate and tune our WAF: managed and custom rules, rate limiting, and bot mitigation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across cloud security and vulnerability management.
• Strong AWS security background: IAM, networking, container orchestration, and logging and audit.
• Hands-on experience securing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code; Terraform required.
• Experience running or substantially contributing to a vulnerability management program.
• Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and threat modeling.
• Operates independently and drives projects without day-to-day oversight.

Nice to Have

• Experience with our stack: Wiz, Cloudflare (WAF, Gateway, Zero Trust), GitHub Advanced Security, Spacelift, and AWS-native services.
• Hands-on WAF experience in production: writing and tuning rules, managing false positives, responding when something gets through.
• AI/ML security exposure: prompt injection, data poisoning, model abuse, and the controls that mitigate them.
• Secrets management platforms (AWS Secrets Manager, Keeper, Infisical).
• Identity security across human and non-human identities.
• PCI-regulated or financial services environment.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails, Python, or Go.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate measures success by reduced risk, not tickets closed, and reaches for secure design and simplicity before another control. They think like an attacker but bring a developer mindset to their partnership with engineering, connecting the dots across cloud, identity, and pipeline rather than treating each as a separate domain. Engineers trust their technical judgment, and when something is blocked, they come with a proposed path forward.

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The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.

Base Salary Range

$140,000 - $165,000 USD

Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

• Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
• 401(k) matching program

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.