Senior Engineer II, Cloud Security

Your Impact at LILA

Lila is hiring a Senior Engineer II, Cloud Security to strengthen cloud and SaaS security across our infrastructure, platforms, and AI-enabled systems. This role owns hands-on security work across cloud posture management, detection and response, container and workload security, identity and privileged access, and security automation.

This role sits within IT & Security and partners closely with infrastructure, platform, data, Dev Sec Ops , and AI teams. The person in this role will turn cloud and SaaS security findings into prioritized remediation work, build guardrails that reduce risk before deployment, and improve Lila’s ability to detect and respond to threats.

The ideal candidate brings deep cloud security experience, strong operational judgment, and the ability to translate technical risk into clear action across engineering and security stakeholders.

• Own cloud and SaaS security posture management across AWS, IaaS/PaaS, and core SaaS platforms.
• Configure, operate, and tune CSPM, CNAPP, and SSPM tooling to surface and prioritize risk.
• Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to drive remediation of cloud, SaaS, and workload findings.
• Build and tune high-fidelity detections across SIEM, EDR, CSPM, and related security systems.
• Lead incident response triage, containment, recovery, and post-incident review for cloud security events.
• Strengthen cloud-native workload and container security across AWS, Kubernetes, hardened AMIs, and network controls.
• Design policy-as-code and guardrails that prevent insecure deployments without slowing developer velocity.
• Partner with AI, data, and platform teams to mature security controls for MLOps pipelines and AI-enabled platforms.

• Extensive hands-on experience in information security, with deep cloud and SaaS security ownership.
• Strong AWS security knowledge, including IAM, SCPs, VPC/networking, KMS, Cloud Trail, Guard Duty, Security Hub, and Config.
• Hands-on experience with CSPM or CNAPP tooling such as Wiz or comparable platforms.
• Experience operating detection and response workflows across SIEM, EDR, CSPM, or related security tooling.
• Practical incident response experience, including triage, containment, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Strong understanding of workload, container, and Kubernetes security.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation using Python, Power Shell, Bash, or similar tools.
• Experience securing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD workflows using Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM, OPA, Sentinel, or native cloud policies.
• Strong grasp of IAM, identity federation, least-privilege access, SaaS permission models, and privileged access management practices.
• Ability to translate technical findings into business risk and partner cross-functionally with cloud, Dev Ops, App Sec, and platform teams.

• Deep experience securing MLOps pipelines, AI-enabled platforms, or AI Security Posture Management practices.
• Experience with Azure-native security services, including Defender for Cloud.
• Depth in CWPP, EDR/XDR, SOAR, or DSPM tooling.
• Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, or similar compliance programs.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security, Azure Security, GCIH, GCFA, GCDA, or OSCP.

We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact.

• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• employer-paid life and disability insurance
• flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• paid parental leave
• an educational assistance program
• commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• a company subsidized lunch program

• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.
• USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.
  
  -based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

$108,000—$163,333 USD

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