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SeniorFull-timePythonAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitGoAI
Salary Range
$132,600 - $179,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to join our team at Kavak, the first Mexican unicorn with an AI-first business model. As we integrate AI models, training pipelines, and inference services into production, the risks associated with identities, sensitive data, and cloud configurations increase significantly. This role will be key to elevating the security posture of the entire organization, protecting models, data, pipelines, and critical services, and preventing modern attacks like model extraction, data poisoning, and abuse of inference endpoints.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design and implement security controls in AWS/GCP/Azure
- →Integrate security best practices into architectures that include models, embeddings, or cloud inference services
- →Implement and manage advanced IAM (roles, policies, least privilege, workload identity)
- →Network security: VPCs, subnets, WAF, security groups, load balancers, cloud firewalls
- →Ensure encryption, key management (KMS), secrets, and rotation
- →Automate with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
- →Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines (scanning, signatures, policies)
- →Manage CSPM/CWPP and posture management
- →Analyze cloud incidents and support basic forensics
- →Review architectures and participate in secure design processes
- →Align with CIS Benchmarks, NIST, and internal policies
Requirements
- ✓Technical profile with deep cloud knowledge, automation capabilities, and mature judgment to integrate security without friction
- ✓2–5 years of experience in cloud security (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- ✓Solid knowledge of IAM, networking, encryption, logging, and monitoring
- ✓Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools
- ✓Experience with containers and Kubernetes
- ✓Familiarity with CSPM/CWPP
Benefits
- ★Health insurance: Osde 310 (family plan)
- ★20 working days of vacation
- ★Birthday day off
- ★Discount on Wellhub (ex Gympass)
- ★Two days off for moving
- ★Extended leave for birth and adoption according to current policy
- ★Discount on Coderhouse and Digital House
- ★Discount on postgraduate studies, master's degrees, and executive education at some local universities
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