Senior SecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Cohere; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health and dental benefits

RRSP matching/401K

Parental leave

Enrichment benefits

Vacation

Remote office/travel budget

Home office stipend

Job summary

Cohere is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer to strengthen our security posture across cloud environments. You will architect and automate security controls, manage IAM/RBAC, and deploy security platforms while partnering with engineering to enable secure scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, threat detection, and incident response within a cloud-native stack. We value collaboration and flexible, pragmatic problem solving.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in SecOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Threat Detection & Response or security-focused software development.
• Hands-on security engineer focused on automating controls and scalable solutions.
• Experience managing cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI) and Kubernetes environments.
• Familiar with CI/CD systems and SecOps workflows (Git, Terraform) in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to leadership and partner teams by articulating security risks.
• Harden cloud environments by default security controls.
• Own secure infrastructure design using IaC and reusable code libraries.
• Manage IAM/RBAC and streamline authentication/authorization.
• Deploy, integrate and operate security platforms (SIEM, SOAR, domain monitoring).
• Respond to security incidents and harden environments post-incident.
• Support monitoring and remediation for compliance initiatives
• Gather and analyze security metrics to address cross-team issues
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver practical, scalable security solutions.

Skills

SecOps

DevSecOps

Cloud Security

Threat Detection & Response

Golang

Python

CI/CD

Infrastructure automation

Kubernetes

Git

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

Job description

Cohere is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer to strengthen our security posture across cloud environments. You will architect and automate security controls, manage IAM/RBAC, and deploy security platforms while partnering with engineering to enable secure scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on security engineering, threat detection, and incident response within a cloud-native stack. We value collaboration and flexible, pragmatic problem solving.