Job Description
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer at Aurora is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing security infrastructure and controls within AWS and Kubernetes environments, ensuring the safety and compliance of autonomous vehicle technology platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement security infrastructure services such as certificate management, secrets management, and authentication/authorization systems.
- Manage security boundaries, access controls, and network segmentation within AWS and Kubernetes environments.
- Develop and maintain security controls, monitoring, reporting, and automated remediation systems.
- Conduct threat modeling and translate risks into security requirements and controls.
- Provide security guidance and conduct security design reviews for new systems and features.
- Design, implement, and maintain security infrastructure and controls within AWS and Kubernetes EKS platforms.
- Define and implement Security as Code using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
- Lead threat modeling exercises for critical systems and architectures.
- Automate security remediation processes to address vulnerabilities and systemic weaknesses.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in software, platform, or security engineering, with at least 3 years focusing exclusively on public cloud security in AWS.
- Expert-level, hands-on experience securing and operating complex environments in AWS, including expertise with IAM, VPC Networking, Security Hub, Config, GuardDuty, and KMS.
- Proven ability to design and implement security controls for Kubernetes EKS, including strong knowledge of authorization models, admission controllers, and security best practices.
- Experience in identifying and managing security risk, and the ability to navigate organizational friction to manage these risks.
- Expertise in one or more Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards and technologies such as PKI, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, and commercial solutions like Okta.
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language such as Python or Go for building security automation, tools, and remediation services.
- Experience writing, reviewing, and scaling infrastructure with Terraform.
- Deep understanding of enterprise-level network security, operating system security (Linux), and application security principles (desirable but not mandatory).
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: 162,000 - 235,000 per year
Hybrid work environment with in-office presence at least 3 days per week
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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