Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

Senior Cloud Security Engineer role at Pax8 in the USA — help define, assess, and secure the cloud platforms powering the world's leading managed intelligence marketplace.

## 🚀 Why this role matters

This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the security posture of Pax8's cloud and platform ecosystem.

Unlike many security engineering roles that focus primarily on application code, this position sits at the intersection of cloud security analysis, platform security architecture, and engineering influence. You'll evaluate how our platform is built today, identify security gaps and architectural weaknesses, and help define the standards, guardrails, and patterns that engineering teams will use going forward.

You'll operate at the intersection of security, DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, and emerging AI technologies—helping protect a rapidly growing global marketplace while influencing how secure cloud platforms are designed and operated at scale.

## 🌍 Life at Pax8

Pax8 is redefining how cloud technology is bought, sold, and secured. We're proud of our inclusive, high-energy culture where curiosity, collaboration, and innovation thrive.

As we continue our AI journey, new starters join at a moment of meaningful transformation—learning, experimenting, and building alongside cutting-edge technology that shapes the future of our platform and the broader technology channel.

This is an opportunity to help establish what "good" looks like for platform security while working alongside talented engineers building modern cloud-native systems.

## 🛠️ What you'll do

### 🔍 Assess and Improve Platform Security

• Review AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and SaaS environments to identify security gaps, misconfigurations, and architectural weaknesses.
• Perform threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and cloud security assessments to identify attack paths, trust boundaries, and opportunities to reduce blast radius.
• Assess platform infrastructure against ...