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Wiz is seeking a Security Engineer to lead security initiatives across its product and production infrastructure. The role combines threat modeling, vulnerability management, detection and response operations, and infrastructure hardening in cloud-native environments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading threat modeling and security reviews across Wiz's products and cloud infrastructure, identifying attack surfaces and developing scalable mitigation strategies
- Building automation, policy-as-code, and security tooling to enable development teams to shift left and integrate security into workflows
- Designing and implementing secure baselines for cloud resources and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Driving vulnerability management and remediation efforts, prioritizing issues and implementing preventative controls across software supply chains
- Extending detection and response capabilities by building scalable solutions to identify malicious activity, triage alerts, and investigate incidents
- Building functional partnerships with engineering and operations teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions
Required qualifications:
- 7+ years of security engineering or security operations experience in cloud environments
- Strong AWS cloud security expertise (Azure/GCP experience considered with some AWS background)
- Cloud-native Kubernetes services (EKS/GKE/AKS) and container security knowledge
- Deep understanding of securing IAM and cloud identities at scale
- Proven ability to lead technical security reviews, conduct threat modeling, and translate findings into actionable controls
- Practical understanding of web application security (OWASP Top-10)
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Pulumi)
- Experience with automation and tooling development in Python, Go, Shell, HCL, or Rego
Preferred: Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent experience, remote team collaboration experience, background in software development or managed infrastructure operations, familiarity with CNAPP/CSPM/CIEM solutions.
