Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Qualis is an AI startup backed by $50M Series A funding focused on building frontier AI solutions for enterprise across mission-critical industries. They are seeking a founding Infrastructure Security Engineer to design and secure the core platform powering AI applications, with a focus on building secure cloud infrastructure and networking.
Responsibilities
- Design and secure cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments
- Build identity, secrets management, access control, and secure networking foundations
- Implement Zero Trust architecture, machine identity, and least-privilege access
- Secure AI workloads, deployment pipelines, and platform infrastructure
- Develop security automation using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Lead infrastructure threat modeling and proactively reduce security risks
- Design secure customer deployment environments and cloud architectures
- Partner closely with Platform, Infrastructure, and ML Engineering teams to deliver secure-by-default systems
Skills
- 5+ years in Infrastructure Security & Security Engineering
- Strong experience securing AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and cloud networking
- Experience implementing IAM, secrets management, encryption, and authentication systems
- Strong understanding of threat modeling, Zero Trust, and infrastructure security best practices
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Builder mindset with experience writing code and deploying secure production infrastructure
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