Senior Cloud Security Engineer — AWS & CI/CD Champion

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision

PTO & holidays

401(k) matching

Career development

Merit advancement

Job summary

Beyond Finance is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to harden the security posture of its AWS environment and software development pipeline. You will partner with DevOps and Engineering to build preventative controls across infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD, with hands-on tooling, architecture reviews, and pipeline hardening.

The ideal candidate brings extensive cloud security experience, Terraform proficiency, and a strong focus on vulnerability management, threat modeling, and secure DevOps

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across cloud security and vulnerability management.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Cloud security

Vulnerability management

Threat modeling

CI/CD security

Automation

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Wiz

Cloudflare

GitHub Advanced Security

Spacelift

Job description

Beyond Finance is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to harden the security posture of its AWS environment and software development pipeline. You will partner with DevOps and Engineering to build preventative controls across infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD, with hands-on tooling, architecture reviews, and pipeline hardening.

The ideal candidate brings extensive cloud security experience, Terraform proficiency, and a strong focus on vulnerability management, threat modeling, and secure DevOps