# Senior Cloud Security Engineer - InfoSec

**Company**: Mercury
**Location**: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,600 - $208,300
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/6134310004?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We're looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to design and implement secure systems, guardrails, and automation that enable Mercury to scale while maintaining security and compliance.

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will:

- Help build and define cloud security posture, enable cyber resilience, and contribute to zero-trust initiatives.

- Understand Governance, Risk, and Compliance in cloud engineering.

- Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to enhance cloud infrastructure reliability and security.

- Automate cloud security controls to minimize threats, vulnerabilities, and risks.

- Shape Mercury's AWS cloud architecture around resilience, least privilege, and maintainability.

- Address remote access challenges and security concerns in a remote-first environment.

The ideal candidate should have:

- 5+ years of experience in cloud security, networking, or information security.

- Strong learning and growth mindset with a proven track record.

- Familiarity with security frameworks and regulations (NIST CSF, FFIEC, SOX, SOC2, etc.).

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Understanding of security practices, troubleshooting, and attack vectors.

- Experience with information-as-code (IaC) tooling.

- AWS certifications are encouraged.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are:

- US employees: $166,600 - $208,300

- Canadian employees: CAD 157,400 - 196,800

## Skills

### Required
- cloud security
- networking
- information security
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance
- AWS
- information-as-code (IaC)

### Nice to have
- AWS certifications

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