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Senior Security Platform Engineer

Equinox
New York City, USA
Full-time
Onsite
USD 145000-175000 yearly
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Cloud infrastructurePlatform engineeringTerraformInfrastructure as codeElastic Security (SIEM)SIEM detection engineering

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Role overview

Senior engineer working across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and security operations.

Serves as a primary technical escalation point for platform reliability and security incidents across cloud environments.

The description identifies the role as hybrid.

Cloud infrastructure and platform

  • Own and maintain infrastructure-as-code and shared modules used by application teams.
  • Manage IAM users, keys, and secrets lifecycle, including rotation and secure storage.
  • Resolve production networking and infrastructure issues involving load balancers, security groups, WAF, CDN, DNS, and container orchestration.
  • Administer access across supported cloud platforms and developer tools; evaluate platform and security tools.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and troubleshoot build and deployment failures.

SIEM and security operations

  • Operate Elastic Security, including cluster upgrades, agents, integrations, and ingestion of cloud, identity, payment/fraud, and WAF logs.
  • Build and tune detections and alert workflows, improve log parsing and signal quality, reduce false positives, and document the logging architecture.
  • Oversee SOC priorities, escalations, investigation quality, and analyst mentoring.
  • Investigate anomalous authentication, account compromise, and suspicious network traffic; coordinate remediation.
  • Maintain incident response runbooks and WAF-based detection and mitigation capabilities.

Identity and application security

  • Drive identity governance, cloud identity reconciliation, and license and access audits.
  • Implement conditional access, MFA/authentication strength requirements, and legacy protocol deprecation.
  • Partner with IT and security leadership on identity provider strategy and vendor licensing.
  • Own security across front-end, back-end, and AI/ML systems; review code and architecture for vulnerabilities across mobile, web, and service layers.

Role qualifications

  • Senior engineering capability across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and security operations.
  • Comfort debugging Terraform modules, tuning SIEM detection rules, and leading incident response investigations.
  • Ability to act as a technical escalation point for platform reliability and security incidents.

Compensation

  • Salary listed as USD 145,000–175,000 yearly.

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