Senior Security Architect: Cloud & Kubernetes Security

DriveWealth; United States; Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Wellness reimbursement

Company phone

Generous PTO & holidays

Job summary

DriveWealth is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to design, build, and mature security capabilities across our brokerage platform and corporate environment. Reporting to the Head of Security Engineering, you will lead complex initiatives and shape architecture with automation to support growth and regulatory obligations.

You will secure our AWS platform, Kubernetes services, low-latency trading infrastructure, and provide security consulting to engineers, IT, Risk, and Compliance in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; security practitioners encouraged.
• GIAC certifications are a plus.
• Experience in regulated financial services or similar high-security environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect reusable security patterns and automated guardrails across product and corporate systems.
• Own complex initiatives from design through deployment and ongoing maintenance with IaC and automation.
• Mentor engineers, conduct design/code reviews, and document architectures and runbooks.
• Engineer security for cloud, network, endpoint, identity, and data protection across AWS, EKS, EC2, and SaaS apps.
• Develop detections, runbooks, and automation for incident response and threat hunting.

Skills

AWS security

Kubernetes security

Endpoint security

Okta

JumpCloud

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Security automation

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

GIAC certifications (plus)

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

GitOps tooling

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

DriveWealth is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to design, build, and mature security capabilities across our brokerage platform and corporate environment. Reporting to the Head of Security Engineering, you will lead complex initiatives and shape architecture with automation to support growth and regulatory obligations.

You will secure our AWS platform, Kubernetes services, low-latency trading infrastructure, and provide security consulting to engineers, IT, Risk, and Compliance in a