Senior Cloud Security Engineer — AWS & CI/CD Defense

Beyond Finance; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision

PTO & holidays

401(k) matching

Job summary

Beyond Finance is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen our AWS security posture and our software development pipeline. You will work with DevOps and Engineering to build preventive controls across infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD, focusing on Wiz, Terraform, and vulnerability management.

You will own cloud security across AWS, implement secure IaC defaults, harden CI/CD, and run a comprehensive vulnerability program while collaborating closely with engineering teams to reduce risk

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across cloud security and vulnerability management.
• Strong AWS security background: IAM, networking, container orchestration, and logging/audit.
• Hands-on experience securing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code; Terraform required.
• Experience running or 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

Security engineering

AWS security

Terraform

Vulnerability management

CI/CD security

Threat modeling

OWASP Top 10

Tools

Wiz

Cloudflare

GitHub Advanced Security

Spacelift

AWS-native services

Job description

Beyond Finance is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen our AWS security posture and our software development pipeline. You will work with DevOps and Engineering to build preventive controls across infrastructure, identity, and CI/CD, focusing on Wiz, Terraform, and vulnerability management.

You will own cloud security across AWS, implement secure IaC defaults, harden CI/CD, and run a comprehensive vulnerability program while collaborating closely with engineering teams to reduce risk