Infrastructure Security Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential cloud infrastructure organization in their search for an Infrastructure Security Engineer. Our client is building cutting-edge cloud platforms and requires security expertise to protect their rapidly growing infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.

This role sits within the Platform Security organization and focuses on implementing security controls, monitoring threats, ensuring compliance, and responding to security incidents. You'll work directly with network and site reliability teams to embed security best practices across all infrastructure components.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security measures to protect cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments, networks, and operating systems
• Build and maintain cloud and infrastructure security tools
• Perform security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments of infrastructure components
• Develop and maintain security guidelines for network and SRE teams
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security best practices into their processes and systems
• Stay current on the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigation techniques
• Serve as a network and infrastructure security subject matter expert to other teams

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in network, infrastructure, or cloud security
• Strong understanding of modern cloud architectures and deployment models (VMs, containers, serverless, Kubernetes)
• Solid knowledge in networks, distributed systems, and Linux systems engineering
• Hands-on experience with network, VPN, and Linux security
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems
• Experience with security automation tools and scripting (Python, Bash, Go, etc.) and willingness to learn Go if necessary
• Experience using and assessing security of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Experience hardening Linux-based systems (apparmor, seccomp, etc.)
• Experience hardening Kubernetes environments
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision

Preferred qualifications:

• Proficiency in securing AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
• Experience conducting threat-modeling sessions
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining Identity Aware Proxies or Bastion hosts
• Experience translating compliance and regulation requirements into technical specifications
• Experience exploiting vulnerabilities in Linux kernel, VMs, containers, and networks
• Experience securing bare metal workloads
• Security certifications such as OSCP or CKS

Location: This role is available in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, or United States. Applicants must be authorized to work in the country where they apply.

Note: Our client conducts coding interviews as part of their selection process.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will review your background and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client and guide you through their interview process. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should go through our talent team to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Our client offers competitive compensation based on experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location. Specific compensation details will be discussed during the interview process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply.