Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer (Cloud Security)

Location: US - Austin, TX; hybrid position requiring at least 3 days in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $133,300–$213,400 USD per year, with potential bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Monitor and improve the security posture of cloud environments and infrastructure; investigate alerts, suspicious activity, and cloud security incidents.
• Review cloud architectures, provide secure-by-design guidance, assess new cloud services, and implement controls across cloud-native and containerized environments.
• Strengthen privileged access management, least-privilege and role-based access controls, authentication, authorization, and credential management.
• Identify cloud vulnerabilities and configuration risks, prioritize remediation, validate secure baselines, and track findings to resolution.
• Implement automated security controls in CI/CD pipelines, improve infrastructure-as-code security, and develop security use cases and automation playbooks.
• Support audits, certifications, client assessments, risk assessments, security documentation, and cross-functional security initiatives; mentor junior analysts.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's Degree, at least 2 years with an Advanced Degree, 0 years with a PhD, or 8+ years of relevant experience without the stated degree path.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud security, cybersecurity, security engineering, infrastructure security, or security operations.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS environments, including network security, IAM, encryption, logging, monitoring, and security services.
• Experience implementing and operating cloud security controls on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP; experience with multiple cloud providers is preferred.
• Strong understanding of IAM, key management and encryption, network segmentation and security, container and Kubernetes security, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps.
• Experience with cloud security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud and risk assessments, and security control reviews.
• Experience supporting information assurance, audit readiness, compliance assessments, control validation, and regulatory examinations.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 1, SOC 2, CIS Controls, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical documentation skills.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, or GIAC certification.
• Experience in banking, payments, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience supporting PCI DSS, PCI PIN Security, SOC, ISO 27001, and regulatory examinations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in an office setting with work hours varying according to department needs.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
• The role supports strategic security initiatives and collaboration across Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, IAM, Security Architecture, Product Security, and Governance, Risk & Compliance teams.