Principal Cloud Security Engineer
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Principal Cloud Security Engineer securing Pax8’s cloud marketplace, infrastructure, and AI-enabled platforms. Establishing cloud, Kubernetes, identity, and software-delivery security standards across USA and Canada.
Responsibilities:
- Create and evolve security baselines for cloud infrastructure, container platforms, platform tooling, and third-party services
- Define least-privilege approaches across cloud identities, service accounts, platform access models, and containerized workloads
- Lead security governance across build and deployment platforms
- Evaluate network segmentation, cloud connectivity, workload isolation, and platform architecture decisions
- Create security posture reporting and translate technical findings into business context
- Develop reference architectures, engineering standards, and decision records
- Partner with DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams
- Embed security expertise into architecture reviews, operational planning, and strategic initiatives
- Shape platform security practices across Pax8’s cloud marketplace
Requirements:
- Extensive experience securing modern cloud and infrastructure platforms
- Deep practical expertise across Amazon Web Services services including identity, networking, encryption, logging, secrets management, containers, and data services
- Demonstrated success creating security standards, architectural guidance, and governance frameworks
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions without reporting-line authority
- Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes security, workload isolation, access controls, network controls, and container governance
- Strong understanding of software delivery security, platform automation, and modern deployment pipelines
- Hands-on experience reviewing infrastructure as code and embedding security controls into engineering workflows
- Experience assessing SaaS and platform technologies through threat modelling and security architecture reviews
- Familiarity with cloud security posture management and platform governance tooling
- Knowledge of security considerations for emerging AI and agent-based workloads
- Experience operating within multi-tenant environments where scale, availability, and data isolation are critical
- Ability to balance pragmatism and risk management while advising engineering teams
- Must hold valid right to work in USA or Canada
- Successful candidates must complete pre-employment checks, including ID verification, references, and qualification checks
Benefits:
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Open PTO
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)
- Internal development hub
- Learning & Development trainers
- AI powered tools
- Mentors
- Cross continent collaboration
- Career growth opportunities
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