Staff Cloud Security & IAM Engineer

Doist; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 162,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff-level Production Engineer to own and evolve secure, multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You’ll design identity and access patterns, automate cloud changes, and work with security and audit teams to meet regulatory requirements.

You will be responsible for building observable tooling, integrating CI/CD for infra, and maintaining high availability in highly regulated environments, including on-call incident response.

Qualifications

• Current TS/SCI clearance (active or re-activatable within 2-year window).
• Polygraph desired (significant plus).
• Experience in security-sensitive or regulated environments (SOC2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, etc.).
• Hands-on cloud IAM, networking, accounts/subscriptions, and audit logging.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD for infrastructure changes.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, and operate IAM, accounts and project lifecycles across AWS, Azure, and GCP with least privilege.
• Review and implement cloud identity policies to align with security standards and audits.
• Build reliable automation to apply cloud changes safely and repeatedly.
• Treat operational and security issues as software problems and codify fixes.
• Own and improve security data pipelines and audit logging from cloud providers.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Audit teams to provide evidence and policy updates.
• Operate in regulated environments (FedRAMP GovCloud) including release management and patching cadences.
• Ensure high availability and resiliency for critical security infrastructure.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation for incidents affecting cloud accounts and security pipelines.
• Collaborate with product engineering and field teams during incidents to restore service.

Skills

Security-focused cloud operations

IAM

Audit logging

CI/CD for infrastructure

Cloud networking

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS/Engineering or equivalent

8+ years cloud infra experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Staff-level Production Engineer to own and evolve secure, multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You’ll design identity and access patterns, automate cloud changes, and work with security and audit teams to meet regulatory requirements.

You will be responsible for building observable tooling, integrating CI/CD for infra, and maintaining high availability in highly regulated environments, including on-call incident response.