Grow your career with a growing organization

Whether they’re helping people reach their long-term financial goals or providing personal wealth management strategies, every associate contributes to changing the lives of those we serve for the better. When it comes to job satisfaction, that’s hard to beat. And from a personal satisfaction perspective, you’ll enjoy the freedom to support causes that matter to you and experience a truly inclusive work environment. Your future starts now.

Cloud Security Engineer

Opportunity: Welcome to the blue team! As a core member of our growing security team, you will take the lead for our cloud security initiatives. You will work with our cutting edge technological platform in a Cloud-first, DevOps, and CI/CD type environment. Boredom will not join us on this journey!

Candidate: You are passionate, curious and self-driven. You enjoy solving complex challenges with incomplete information in creative and innovative ways with your teammates. You don’t know everything but, given a new problem you have strong enough foundations to untangle, self-learn and identify creative ways to solve it. 

Job Responsibilities: You will work with the team to build our cloud security stack, security automations, partner with DevOps teams on architectural reviews, and set “secure by default” standards across our cloud environments:

• Drive forward our existing cloud security stack & security automation stack - including maintenance of existing environment, developing new solutions architectures and implementing them to improve our capabilities

• Consult and advise our engineering teams to influence secure design, deployment, maintenance of our cloud-based non-security applications and workloads

• Research & develop proof of concepts on new security technologies relevant to us

• Define and implement secure standards for relevant cloud services

Core soft skills:

• Unimpeachable integrity, character, courage and honesty

• Engineering mindset to develop & troubleshoot issues with an empirical & methodical approach

• Self-starter mentality that defaults to action and thinks creatively on how to overcome challenges

• Effective communication skills to interface with both internal and external teams on complex issues and enthusiastic timelines

Core hard skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field

• Approximately five (5) years of experience in security and/or mixed with SRE (site reliability engineering) or cloud engineering experience

• Strong understanding of relevant AWS technologies:

  • AWS Core - Organizations, Cloudformation

  • AWS Networking - VPC, NACL & Peering

  • AWS Security - IAM, Config, KMS, Cloudtrail, Cloudwatch, GuardDuty 

  • AWS Data - Redshift, Aurora, S3 & EBS

• Ability to develop simple scripts & automation in Python (spaces, no tabs)

• Ability to interact with IaaS (AWS / boto) and SaaS cloud systems via API calls

• Familiarity with SaaS cloud security (e.g., CASB, SCIM, SAML, OIDC)

• Familiarity with Linux systems security

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts

Additional desirable skills you might have (bonus points):

• Familiarity with Kubernetes generally and Kubernetes security specifically (e.g.: ingress controllers, rbac privileges design, etc.)

• AWS Certifications

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (notably Jenkins)

• Familiarity with systems configuration orchestration (notably Chef)

• Ability to use appropriate memes in team chat room

We also recognize that there may be exceptional candidates that do not meet all of our established criteria. If you think you have the skills and can do this job, don’t hesitate to apply.

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 5), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus nine paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - internal networks that rally around common interest, experiences and identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, ability, military status and sexual orientation. BRGs play a vital role in educating and engaging our people and advancing our business priorities.

Competitive compensation, includes base salary and eligibility to participate in either an annual bonus program or sales incentive plan, as applicable. Base salary range provided below is a reasonable estimate and final base salary may differ based on the selected candidate’s education, training, experience, licensure requirements, travel requirements and geographic location.

Location

CA Redwood City

Base Salary Range

$ 115,700.00-191,000.00

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.