Cloud Security Engineer

Blockdaemon • Full-time • New York City; Dublin, Ireland; Galway, Ireland • 10h ago

Position Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Security Engineer to join our security team as an individual contributor. You’ll be responsible for proactively improving our security posture across our multi-cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and runtime environments. You’ll work closely with DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to secure every stage of the software development lifecycle and operational stack.

This role is highly technical. You should be comfortable writing automation, deploying infrastructure-as-code, and getting your hands dirty with tools like Terraform, ArgoCD, Docker, and Vault.

Your Impact

Key Responsibilities:

Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
Engineer and deploy security controls and automation across our multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Develop and implement Policy as Code and Compliance as Code to automate governance, guardrails, and enforcement directly in our pipelines.
Harden and secure our core infrastructure, APIs and applications, including containers, Kubernetes, serverless, and Infrastructure as Code from design to runtime.
Implement Supply Chain Security best practices, including creating SBOMs, performing dependency scanning, and ensuring artifact signing and provenance checks.
Build and maintain security monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect threats and anomalies using AI/ML-driven detection and automation for smarter vulnerability triage and auto-remediation.
Champion a Zero Trust and Identity-first Security model, focusing on granular IAM, continuous verification, and least-privilege by default.
Collaborate closely with our Head of Information Security, DevOps, SRE, and engineering teams to embed security best practices and ensure our systems are resilient.
Drive technical projects to improve our security posture and maintain compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards.

Role Requirements

Proven hands-on experience as a Cloud Security Engineer or in a similar security-focused SRE role.
Deep technical expertise with at least two major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to build and manage secure cloud environments.
Strong proficiency in a scripting or programming language (e.g., Go, Python) for security automation and tool development.
Hands-on experience securing cloud-native workloads (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, serverless).
A solid understanding of blockchain fundamentals and a passion for securing decentralized systems.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit processes from a technical implementation perspective.

About Us:

We Power the Blockchain economy.

Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy with its suite of industry-leading
infrastructure solutions. We are a globally established, ISO-27001 certified partner with extensive protocol coverage, offering technical depth, industry-leading SLAs, 70+ global points of presence through 10+ cloud and bare metal providers, and 24/7 support for an unmatched institutional-grade experience. We provide integrated business solutions to exchanges, custodians, crypto platforms, financial institutions, and developers using our end-to-end suite of blockchain tools, including dedicated nodes, APIs, staking, liquid staking, MPC tech, and more. Blockdaemon provides its customers with the confidence to quickly and easily scale without compromising security or compliance.

We are a globally distributed team.

Blockdaemon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.