Senior Security Engineer: AI-augmented Cloud Security

Socket.dev; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Career development

Wellbeing programs

Two mental health days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to secure and harden their application, cloud, and infrastructure across on-premises and major clouds. You will implement controls, rework patch cycles, and mentor junior engineers while scaling AI-augmented tooling and runningbooks.

You will collaborate with teams across regions to ensure safe changes, deliver security metrics for program reporting, and help uphold a world-class security posture in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security, software, or DevSecOps engineering experience, comfortable securing and hardening across application, infrastructure, and cloud, plus a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Multi-cloud experience across two or more of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI (all four an advantage), alongside on-premises infrastructure.
• A solid understanding of security principles and common vulnerabilities, with hands-on work across patching, hardening, cloud configuration, network isolation, and identity and access controls.
• Hands-on experience with SAST/SCA tooling and remediating application and open-source dependency vulnerabilities, plus infrastructure patching.
• A track record of improving and optimizing engineering processes, reducing cycle time in patching, releases, or security work, rather than only executing it.
• Familiarity with vulnerability prioritization (CVSS/EPSS, CISA KEV) and SLA-driven burndown, plus comfort with AI-assisted tooling and reviewing its output critically.
• Clear communication, some experience mentoring engineers, and strong ownership of security outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Secure and harden the estate hands-on across the full stack: application and open-source dependency fixes, infrastructure patching, cloud configuration and guardrails, WAF, network isolation, and secrets and machine-identity management.
• Improve and optimize how security gets done, reworking patching cycles and golden-image refreshes, cutting cycle time, and removing friction so the team moves faster.
• Implement and tune security controls across operating systems, containers, CI/CD pipelines, cloud configuration, and network boundaries to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
• Scale adoption of AI-augmented SAST and SCA tooling, expanding coverage, reviewing generated pull requests, and validating fixes, prioritizing by risk in line with CISA guidance and measuring mean time to remediate, throughput, and burndown against SLA.
• Package reusable patterns, tooling, and runbooks so routine work can be executed by more junior engineers, and mentor them with technical review of their fixes.
• Partner with application and platform teams to land and validate changes safely, and coordinate with the wider team across regions to keep progress continuous across time zones.
• Feed accurate security metrics and status into program reporting.

Skills

Security engineering

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Multi-cloud

Patching and hardening

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

SAST tooling

SCA tooling

CI/CD security

Vulnerability management tools

Job description

Thomson Reuters in the United States is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to secure and harden their application, cloud, and infrastructure across on-premises and major clouds. You will implement controls, rework patch cycles, and mentor junior engineers while scaling AI-augmented tooling and runningbooks.

You will collaborate with teams across regions to ensure safe changes, deliver security metrics for program reporting, and help uphold a world-class security posture in a hybrid work