Senior Cloud Security Engineer (AWS)

Location: Remote

Salary: $140,000–$165,000 USD base annual salary, plus eligibility for an annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global helps Americans address overwhelming debt through individualized financial solutions, compliance-focused services, and user-centric technology.

What you will do

• Own cloud security posture across AWS using Wiz and AWS-native services.
• Reduce risk across IAM, network segmentation, container security, secrets, and data exposure.
• Establish secure Infrastructure as Code defaults with reusable modules, guardrails, and policy as code.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines and manage cloud and application vulnerability findings through prioritization, SLA tracking, and remediation.
• Build automation for finding ingestion, deduplication, prioritization, and developer-facing workflows.
• Operate WAF protections, telemetry, alerting, runbooks, rate limiting, and bot mitigation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in cloud security and vulnerability management.
• Strong AWS security experience across IAM, networking, container orchestration, logging, and audit.
• Hands-on experience securing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code; Terraform is required.
• Experience running or substantially contributing to a vulnerability management program.
• Working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 and threat modeling.
• Ability to operate independently and drive projects without day-to-day oversight.

Nice to have

• Experience with Wiz, Cloudflare WAF/Gateway/Zero Trust, GitHub Advanced Security, Spacelift, and AWS-native services.
• Production WAF experience, including rule tuning, false-positive management, and incident response.
• AI/ML security experience covering prompt injection, data poisoning, model abuse, and mitigation controls.
• Experience with secrets management, identity security, PCI-regulated environments, Ruby on Rails, Python, or Go.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive environment focused on community, connection, and belonging.
• Health, dental, and vision programs with considerable employer contributions.
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) matching program, merit advancement opportunities, and career development and training.