Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer — Zero Trust, Remote

Primerai

United States

Remote

USD 175,000 - 235,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Monthly internet stipend

Health/dental/vision coverage

Wellness days

Parental leave

Job summary

Primerai is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead cloud security architecture and incident response in a high-impact IT and Information Security team. You will drive the Zero Trust program and ensure security is integrated into IT and DevOps workflows, while staying hands-on with engineering tasks.

You will own cloud security tooling, respond to alerts, and guide detection, remediation, and continuous compliance across cloud environments.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in security and/or cloud operations with strong communication skills.
Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native security controls (IAM, WAF).
Direct experience with intrusion prevention systems, logging, and SIEM technologies.
Experience embedding security in IT/DevOps environments and automating security workflows.
Experience integrating Okta as an identity provider into security processes.

Responsibilities

Continuously analyze and improve security posture across cloud infrastructure, platforms, and apps.
Conduct security assessments and audits of cloud environments and remediate issues.
Manage and tune cloud-native security tools (EDR, IAM, WAF); own DAST/SAST in SDLC.
Lead incident response from detection to resolution.
Expand Zero Trust within IT/DevOps and integrate Sec practices in SDLC.
Automate security workflows to support continuous compliance and threat tracking.