Security Risk Engineer

We are looking for a Security Engineer with strong technical acumen who can immediately design, prioritize, and implement risk-reducing technical solutions across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes solution engineering over process engineering - using established information security frameworks, policies, and controls as direct inputs to build practical, automatable, and scalable technical safeguards.

The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer first and a security risk professional second: someone who already understands how systems fail, how controls are enforced through code and architecture, and how risk and compliance intent translate into resilient technical designs - without requiring extended ramp-up time on RAC fundamentals.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles, with a significant portion spent directly supporting risk, audit, or compliance functions.

• Demonstrated, ready-to-apply experience with audit lifecycles, control testing, and compliance evidence collection - able to engage with auditors and risk stakeholders immediately without extensive training.

• Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across teams.

• Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automation.

• Comfortable operating at the intersection of engineering teams and risk/compliance stakeholders.

• Ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity.

• Experience in production support and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer technical risk solutions that reduce operational, cyber, and resilience risk through architecture, automation, and control design - starting on day one with minimal onboarding.

• Translate risk requirements, policies, and standards into implementable technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures.

• Prioritize and influence solution design decisions based on risk impact, blast radius, and recovery dependencies.

• Partner with platform, cloud, security, and SRE teams to embed risk controls directly into infrastructure and pipelines.

• Evaluate control effectiveness using technical signals and evidence, not just procedural compliance checklists.

• Independently support the requirements of internal control, internal audit, and external audit engagements, including evidence gathering, control testing, and remediation tracking.

• Deploy and manage security software, assess and apply required security patches on Security Appliances (servers).

• Support the Security Appliances 24x7 on-call rotation to enable continuous data collection.

• Drive initiatives such as secure cloud architecture, isolated recovery environments, identity and access hardening, and infrastructure resilience.

• Provide informed, immediate guidance on risk tradeoffs and compliance requirements to engineering and business stakeholders.

• Contribute to lightweight process definition where needed, always in service of enabling better technical and audit outcomes.

Required Technical Skills

• Risk, Audit & Compliance Frameworks: Direct working experience with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOX, PCI-DSS, or similar, and demonstrated ability to map controls to technical implementations.

• Data Analytics: Proficiency with GCP BigQuery, Power BI (or similar) for visualizing risk posture and audit evidence.

• Configuration Management / Automation: Ansible, REST API, Terraform.

• Programming / Scripting: Python, Linux Bash, Windows PowerShell, SQL.

• Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS.

• Supporting Knowledge (nice to have):

  • Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes

  • CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code

  • Familiarity with Agentic AI frameworks

  • Observability, logging, and evidence automation

  • Backup, recovery, and resilience architectures