Senior Cloud Security Engineer: IAM, IaC & AI Security

Rescale; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rescale is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to secure cloud infrastructure, IAM, and internal tooling. You’ll work across AWS, Okta, GitHub Enterprise, and evolving AI-assisted tooling. This is a hands-on role focused on writing Terraform, querying logs, and designing IAM policies.

You will help secure enterprise deployments, partner with engineering and customer teams, and contribute to security runbooks and playbooks. A strong background in cloud security and IaC is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud-native security or DevSecOps.
• 3+ years of experience with Bash or Python.
• Hands-on with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and identity/access management platforms (Okta, Azure AD, or similar).
• Exposure to OAuth/token architecture, AI/LLM-assisted tooling security, or agentic workflow design.
• Solid understanding of operating systems and networking fundamentals.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and harden cloud infrastructure and identity systems.
• Build security automation and detection pipelines.
• Evaluate and secure AI-assisted and agentic tools used internally.
• Investigate and respond to security findings, including triaging authentication anomalies and reviewing logs.
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for security controls and compliance.
• Support secure network and cloud deployment designs for enterprise customer environments.
• Write internal documentation, runbooks, and playbooks to scale security practices.

Skills

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Bash

Python

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Terraform

Okta

Azure AD

Athena

CloudTrail Lake

Superset

Job description

Rescale is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to secure cloud infrastructure, IAM, and internal tooling. You’ll work across AWS, Okta, GitHub Enterprise, and evolving AI-assisted tooling. This is a hands-on role focused on writing Terraform, querying logs, and designing IAM policies.

You will help secure enterprise deployments, partner with engineering and customer teams, and contribute to security runbooks and playbooks. A strong background in cloud security and IaC is essential.