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Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer (USA)
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Remote, United States
Our take: The real work here is setting the technical direction for securing a FedRAMP-authorized government cloud platform, combining hands-on tooling with influence across many teams.
If you love owning the security of infrastructure that real governments depend on, this is your kind of work: you set the technical direction, build the tooling, and shape the patterns other teams adopt. You will thread the demands of FedRAMP with genuine engineering judgement, deciding pragmatically where automation and AI actually help. It suits someone who enjoys being the calm senior voice in the room and quietly raising the bar for everyone around them.
Needs
- securing cloud infra
- threat modelling
- writing security tooling
- setting direction
- translating tradeoffs
- fedramp compliance
Rewards
- mentoring engineers
- serving public sector
- visible impact
- patterns others adopt
Demands
- scoping ambiguity
- cross-team influence
- explaining to leadership
- high-stakes changes
- multi-quarter horizons
Grows
- ai-assisted security
- leading initiatives
- tracing systemic risk
- new compliance domains
Values
- pragmatic security
- learning culture
- inclusive collaboration
- rigour
- remote first
Drains
- continuous monitoring
- compliance paperwork
- control-framework diplomacy
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