Cloud Security Engineer

About Unit

Unit is building the platform to power the next generation of financial services. Our mission is to help companies expand financial access for all. Our simple and powerful banking-as-a-service API helps companies launch bank accounts, cards, payments, and lending in weeks - not years.

Unit was founded by a team with deep fintech and financial services experience and the first banking-as-a-service platform to reach unicorn status. We have raised over $169 million to date from top investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Aleph, and Flourish and serve 140+ customers including AngelList, Honeybook, Roofstock, and many more.

THE ROLE

Unit is currently looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, who will join our security team to build and manage Unit's cloud security aspects from the ground up.

The desired candidate should be well-organized and highly motivated, with hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and cloud security including driving improvements in technical architecture, standards, and processes in a fast-growing environment. We are looking for a true team player, who can make an immediate impact within our growing and dynamic organization.

We are experienced founders and builders at heart, backed by top VCs and 40+ top fintech angels. For the right candidate, this is a rare opportunity to help build an industry-defining company from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis, evaluation, and execution of an ideal cloud security offering that integrates development activities, information security, and the automated release methods within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Accountable for identifying weaknesses in our security posture within the cloud architecture while defining methods to achieve security control.
• Implement new cloud security products, manage and maintain them together with our DevOps team.
• Develops standards, policies, and procedures as well as best practices documentation.
• Serve as a source of knowledge for cloud security matters.
  
  

• At least 5 years working as a hands-on security engineer
• At least 3 years of proven hands-on experience with one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Kubernetes and Containers
• Experience with CI/CD
• Independent, able to complete tasks end to end, prioritize your tasks and build relationships across the organization.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills