Cloud Operations & Security Lead

About the Role

We are looking for a highly technical leader to own cloud security and coordinate operations engineers embedded across product and engineering teams. You will establish clear security ownership, improve operational controls and ensure teams can deliver reliable services with consistent infrastructure practices.

Responsibilities

• Own technical security priorities across cloud infrastructure and production operations.
• Establish standards for access management, secrets, infrastructure configuration, vulnerability remediation and operational monitoring.
• Coordinate embedded operations engineers across teams, clarifying responsibilities, priorities and escalation paths.
• Lead incident response, investigations and follow-up improvements.
• Review infrastructure designs and deployment practices for security, resilience and operational readiness.
• Improve automation, observability, recovery procedures and operational documentation.
• Work with engineering leaders to balance shared security requirements with team delivery needs.
• Coach engineers and provide technical direction across the operations function.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and security operations.
• Experience implementing and operating security controls in production environments.
• Strong understanding of identity and access management, networking, Linux systems, containers and infrastructure automation.
• Demonstrated experience leading incident response and implementing corrective actions.
• Experience setting technical standards and coordinating engineers across multiple teams.
• Ability to investigate technical issues directly and make practical decisions under pressure.

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure as code, Kubernetes and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience improving security across distributed engineering organizations.
• Familiarity with the operational needs of data-intensive or ML platforms.