Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Unacast is a leading provider of global location intelligence that delivers cutting-edge analytics about human mobility in the physical world. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer focused on AWS cloud security to own and strengthen the security of their cloud environment, implementing security controls and promoting secure practices within the organization.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain security controls and policies across AWS environments to protect systems and data
- Lead the integration of security practices into the DevOps lifecycle, promoting secure development, deployment, and operational processes
- Utilize AWS security tooling and security services to support detection, prevention, and continuous improvement of cloud security posture
- Identify, assess, and drive remediation of security risks and vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure in partnership with engineering teams
- Monitor cloud environments for threats, investigate suspicious activity, and respond to security alerts and events
- Support incident response, penetration test findings, and security audit remediation, including containment, investigation, and post-incident follow-up
- Deploy security technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and access controls, while establishing device-level malware and antivirus standards to safeguard endpoints and cloud environments
- Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements, and apply best practices to strengthen overall security posture
- Maintain security policies, documentation, and internal security standards
- Support customer security reviews and respond to security questionnaires as needed
- Act as Google Workspace administrator, managing access and account security
- Support compliance initiatives such as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 as needed
- Establish and maintain the company's AI usage policy, including approved tools, acceptable use guidelines, and data handling requirements for AI assistants, coding agents, and LLM-based services
- Evaluate and vet AI tools (including coding assistants, agentic systems, and SaaS integrations with embedded AI) for security, privacy, and compliance risks before company-wide adoption
- Define guardrails for AI use with sensitive data, customer data, and regulated information, ensuring alignment with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer contractual obligations
- Educate engineering and non-technical teams on safe AI practices, including prompt hygiene, awareness of prompt injection and data exfiltration risks, and secure use of agentic tools perform actions within company systems
- Monitor the evolving AI threat landscape (model supply chain risks, prompt injection, data poisoning, shadow AI usage) and update controls and policies accordingly
- Review AI tool integrations in the DevOps lifecycle, including code generation, automated PR review, and agentic deployment tools, to ensure they meet security standards
Skills
- 5+ years' experience in Java 8 and higher software development with the Java Spring Framework used for REST APIs
- Demonstrate excellent SQL database skills ranging from database initial creation and design, table design, automated load and maintenance processes, and efficient querying. Snowflake SQL is strongly preferred
- Proficiency working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and utilizing its many services. For example AWS Elastic Container Service for application deployment or AWS X-Ray for debugging
- Experience processing data efficiently in JSON and GeoJSON
- Proficiency in programming languages such Scala, Python or other similar programming languages
- Demonstrated ability to quickly and efficiently break down larger projects to smaller tasks, and handle multiple projects and tasks at the same time
- Experience in software or engineering projects from ideation, through development and into production
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English
- Experience with data analytics and data visualization
- You have experience working with geospatial data
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- We offer competitive salaries and benefits
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