Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security
Designs and builds security controls for infrastructure including GPU clusters, multi-cloud setups, datacenters, Kubernetes, and networks to protect AI models and data from advanced threats. Requires deep security expertise, cloud platform knowledge, and proactive problem-solving across on-prem and cloud environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and build security controls across diverse layers (e.g., physical hardware, firmware/BMC, OS, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD) to defend against sophisticated adversaries and insider threats.
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to drive deployment of security enhancements and control changes across broad-scale infrastructure.
- Tackle high-impact projects such as checkpoint encryption, network isolation, secret management, and machine identity, while continuously raising the security bar for emerging AI workloads.
- Take a generalist approach to building security controls, balancing a mix of security expertise and broad technical skillsets to adapt to evolving challenges.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of security principles, best practices, and common vulnerabilities.
- Proactive mindset, with the ability to identify and address security gaps or inefficiencies through automation and tooling.
- Track record of delivering scalable solutions and driving impactful changes across infrastructure in real-world projects.
- Expertise in the security of cloud platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure), especially securing multi-cloud networks and infrastructure, and designing cloud agnostic systems.
- Experience securing on-prem deployments and datacenters from construction to multi-tenant use.
- Familiarity with container security, orchestration security, and authentication/authorization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to think critically and objectively assess security risks.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excitement about collaborating with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable systems that scale globally.
Skills
Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, Container Security, Network Security, Secret Management, Cloud Security, Datacenter Security, Firmware Security
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